The Skinny November 2007 by The Skinny

EATING & DRINKING BAR SOBA

ONE TEN BAR AND GRILL

Nestled beneath the perennially bustling post-work cocktail hub, Bar Soba’s restaurant is an altogether more chilled experience. A narrow, L-shaped room, the linear table set up and dim mood lighting make good use of the space, creating an intimate, very couples-centric feel. A pre- dinner basket of Thai prawn crackers gets the palate revved up, with the chilli-flaked curls a continent away from the GM Quavers often served as standard. The avocado and crab salad was a vibrant way to begin, with decent amounts of its promised star ingredients crowning a disc of pleasingly stodgy sushi rice. The baby squid was similarly bountiful, a tumbling heap of crunchy-soft young ‘uns waiting to be dunked in their moreishly tart lime dip. For mains, the Malaysian duck confit was a tender, rich and deeply savoury piece of bird, set atop some hefty braised pak choi, whilst the prawn and pumpkin in a warmingly spiced yellow curry was the autumnal dish of your dreams. Standards didn’t flag at puds stage, with the generic sorbet-in-alemon so often found in pan-Asian restaurants thankfully nowhere to be seen. Rather, two cute triangular coconut and chocolate brownies sandwiching vanilla ice cream and a lime and chocolate cheesecake ideally polished off a dinner for which the staple flavours of the region got the chance to shine.

Hotel restaurants usually conjure up visions of muzak, dire suburban prints and an atmosphere as dour as Churchill’s grave. However One Ten Bar and Grill is that rare find – a hotel restaurant that doesn’t look like a hotel restaurant. Dining here is like being in the groove of a particularly smooth record. The embracing booths house a smart clientele who are well-looked after by the attentive waiting staff. We started with the chargrilled asparagus with hollandaise and the Stornaway black pudding with bacon and poached egg. The asparagus was firm, the hollandaise heavenly. The brunch-like black pudding dish was original, but marred slightly by watery egg and gristly bacon. Our accompanying Sauvignon Blanc was cool and crisp as apples in winter. The Thai-influenced tikka spiced vegetables was fruity - a respectable, if not particularly exciting, vegetarian option. The tender corn-fed chicken supreme was well-contrasted by a strong, creamy peppercorn sauce. A lovely combination of rich and subtle flavours could be found in the warm chocolate fondant with mascarpone sorbet. A playful hot banana and caramel pot with rum and raisin ice-cream was satisfying, but a little bland. However full marks go to the coffee, which ought to have certain chain outlets weeping with collective shame. Although not the place to go to for a raucous birthday bash, One Ten Bar is the ideal environment for enjoying a special occasion in an intimate setting. [Debbie Martin]

MEAL FOR TWO WITH WINE £50 2 COURSES FROM £13.50; 3 COURSES FROM £18 BAR SOBA, 11 MITCHELL LANE, GLASGOW

ONE TEN BAR AND GRILL, MARKS HOTEL, 110 BATH STREET, GLASGOW

0141 204 2404 WWW.BARSOBA.CO.UK

0141 354 7705

One Ten photo: Derek Mark Chapman

Bae Soba photo: Derek Mark Chapman

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to the UKs only brewery that adheres to the German Purity Laws. Petra admits that the search for the perfect location was arduous and that “friends thought we were crazy” when they settled on the not-exactly-salubrious East End. But after a year and a half of trading, it seems perfect that such a visionary new local industry should effectively become the hub of an increasingly youthful and re-vitalised neighbourhood. Furthermore, the Wetzel-Stewarts were adamant that they didn’t want the production side to simply be ‘a trendy add-on’ to a restaurant. “We don’t like to use the term micro-brewery,” says Petra: “We’re a brewery, full-stop.” Certainly, there’s an absolute integrity to the beer they produce. Fully certified Braumeisters D a v e a n d G o r d y w e r e w h i s ke d o f f t o Oktoberfest mecca Munich to learn their trade, and everything from their state of the art brew-

ing equipment to the dark wood furnishings of the classic open plan bier halle made the return journey to Glasgow. This attention to detail certainly pays off in the crucial taste test; each mouthful has a clean, hoppy freshness utterly unlike any other domestic beer. Their signature lager-style Helles is crisp, dry and screams out for a balmy summer day, whilst their Dunkel is an almost porter-like coffee-black beer to get cosy with. Seasonal beers for Christmas are on the cards and their Germanic authenticity goes as far as matching each brew to its correct receptacle (from hefty steins to ceramic mugs) and providing liberal salty pretzels to keep the thirst coming.

the lucrative Scottish beer market. With the current vogue resurgence of the artisan craftsman, their hope to train up skilled brewers who will then go on to start their own independent breweries is both a realistic dream and exemplary of their desire to kick-start an alternative movement of drinking for pleasure rather than passing out.

Currently churning out 1.5 million litres a year and filling the taps of everywhere from West End gastropub Firebird to the Glasgow Film Theatre, West Brewery shows no sign of resting on its laurels. Rather, their five year plan is to increase production, invest in a bottling plant and become a legitimate player in

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Brewed with the soft Scottish water that makes malt whisky its most desirable export, it is clear the natives have taken to their new national drink. After all, as Petra points out, good beer is essentially grains and water. “Just like porridge!: she beams. [Ruth Marsh]

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Recently I was pleased to take part in a discussion on the need for a new avant-garde, as part of the (once again excellent) Edinburgh Independent and Radical Book Fair. The last question we were asked was: ‘where do you think the new avant-garde will come from?’

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Working for The Skinny I enjoy covering the arts in various ways, but sometimes I get frustrated at the lack of a contemporary avant-garde. In Scotland, in 2007, there’s lots of good, even exciting work being done, but there’s little sense of visceral, anti-establishment – groundbreaking – activity. So it was a good question, insofar as I don’t think we have a functioning avant-garde.

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The idea of an avant-garde developed in the middle of the 19th century and is directly related to the idea of opposition to the capitalist/industrial system, and has been around for 150 years. Without wishing to come over all complacent in the face of rich-get-richer-poorget-poorer economics, isn’t it time to look for some new area of artistic priority (while avoiding the pitfalls of post modern pessimism)? The example I gave in the discussion was of Bill Drummond. His activities, from fronting highly successful pop-terrorists The KLF, to awarding a prize with a value of exactly double that of the Turner Prize for ‘worst artist of the year’, have been co-opted by a number of ‘avant-garde’ theorists already. His recent activities were what came to mind most though, and in particular No Music Day. This off-the-wall movement, in its third year, is scheduled for 21 November and, almost incredibly, has the backing of BBC Scotland - who will be playing no music (or jingles) for the full 24 hours. Drummond’s current activism is specifically concerned with technology – it is the hyper-accessibility of digital music that he is suggesting we need to think twice about. That is the key: it’s not a question of passively accepting technological advancements nor a calling for impractical techno-fear but a self-originated decision

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to step back from their influence occasionally and understand its effects. Turn to page 9 to find out more about what Drummond had to say. Other leading practitioners who are demonstrating an advanced ability to fuse technology, creativity, and what comes across as a slightly subversive agenda, include Radiohead. Their release last month of In Rainbows, via download only and on a pay-what-youlike basis, certainly set tongues wagging around the music industry. Turn to page 40 to read our review of the (brilliant) album. Of course, for some time the area of the media that has been leading the way in terms of technological and creative interplay is that of computer games. But this issue Richard Dennis takes a comparable stance to Drummond, and asks whether total immersion (in this case, into the idea of ‘freedom’ presented by some of the more advanced games) is really all that it’s cracked up to be. Turn to page 24 for further insight. We’ve also got our usual round of in depth coverage of the best of the arts to hit Scotland, including our cover interview with Wes Anderson about his new film The Darjeeling Limited,a feature on the Collective Gallery’s major New Work Scotland programme, and Theatre Workshop’s inventive collaboration on Beckett’s Endgame with Glasgow robot-makers Sarmanka (another example of the kind of symbiotic practice that I’d like to start to promote). I’m aware that I haven’t come up with any conclusive answers to the question I posed above: namely, if not an avant-garde, then what? But consider this as the opening of a discourse, and keep an eye on this space (and the rest of The Skinny’s output) over the coming months. Let’s find our place in the meta-world. rupert@skinnymag.co.uk

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FRI 2 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, Chart & floor fillers, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

BOOGIEBUG, HONEY, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, New & old

DJ JOE BRODIE(TAY FM), I DO LIKE MONDAY’S!, FAT SAM’S, Latest in the charts & old favourites, 23:00,

£4/£3.50

WED 14 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, Student anthems with Howie on live drum percussion,

23:00, £4/£3.50

DJ BUDDYLUV, DUVET, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, Urban delights,

skool house, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

23:00, £4/£3.50

22:30, £tbc

SICS, FAT SAM’S, The ‘official’ start to the weekend…,

PAUL WOOLFORD, HEADWAY, THE READING ROOMS,

THU 15 NOV RICKY HARRISON, ANTHEMS & CLAS-

THE KARMA LOUNGE, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 3, All your faves

23:00, £4/£3.50

from the 70s, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

SAT 3 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, Anthems, RnB, hip hop & the rest, 23:00, £5/£7/£3.50 SUNWEED SOUND SYSTEM, THE READING ROOMS, Roots reggae & dub, 22:30, £2.5

DJ ROBERT WALKER, BACK TO REALITY, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, Funky house, 23:00, £5/£7/£3.50

SUN 4 NOV TOUNGUE IN CHEEK, FAT SAM’S, You pick the pop, 23:00, £3.50/£5/£2.50

MON 5 NOV DJ JOE BRODIE(TAY FM), DIS-

COTECA, FAT SAM’S, Pop RnB & indie in the mix, 23:00,

FRI 16 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, Chart & floor fillers, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

BOOGIEBUG, HONEY, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, New & old skool house, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

THE KARMA LOUNGE, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 3, All your faves from the 70s, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

SAT 17 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, Anthems, RnB, hip hop & the rest, 23:00, £5/£7/£3.50

DJ ROBERT WALKER, BACK TO REALITY, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, Funky house, 23:00, £5/£7/£3.50

SUN 18 NOV TOUNGUE IN CHEEK, FAT SAM’S, You

£4/£3.50

pick the pop, 23:00, £3.50/£5/£2.50

FAT SAM’S, Latest in the charts & old favourites, 23:00,

COTECA, FAT SAM’S, Pop RnB & indie in the mix, 23:00,

DJ JOE BRODIE(TAY FM), I DO LIKE MONDAY’S!, £4/£3.50

TUE 6 NOV BILL BREWSTER & DICKY TRISCO, DISCO DEVIANCE, THE READING ROOMS, 22:30, £8/£6 WED 7 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL

1, Student anthems with Howie on live drum percussion,

23:00, £4/£3.50

DJ BUDDYLUV, DUVET, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, Urban delights, 23:00, £4/£3.50

MON 19 NOV DJ JOE BRODIE(TAY FM), DIS£4/£3.50

DJ JOE BRODIE(TAY FM), I DO LIKE MONDAY’S!, FAT SAM’S, Latest in the charts, 23:00, £4/£3.50

WED 21 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, Student anthems with Howie on live drum percussion,

23:00, £4/£3.50

DJ BUDDYLUV, DUVET, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, Urban delights, 23:00, £4/£3.50

THU 8 NOV RICKY HARRISON, ANTHEMS & CLAS- THU 22 NOV RICKY HARRISON, ANTHEMS & CLASSICS, FAT SAM’S, The ‘official’ start to the weekend…,

SICS, FAT SAM’S, The ‘official’ start to the weekend…

FRI 9 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1,

FRI 23 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1,

FAT SAM’S, Latest in the charts & old favourites, 23:00,

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WED 28 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, Student anthems with Howie on live drum percussion,

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DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, Student an-

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THU 1 NOV RAY LA MONTAGNE, CAIRD HALL, £18.5 FRI 2 NOV PAGE 6, THE DRAYMIN, GRACE EMILY, DESCARTES, THE DOGHOUSE, 20:00, free HEADWAY FEAT. DJ HEATHER, THE READING ROOMS, 22:30, £tbc

SAT 3 NOV THE APPLE SCRUFFS, THE BROGUES, HI 5 ALIVE & MORE, THE DOGHOUSE, 16:15, free MIXED BIZNEZZ WITH HINT & BOOM MONK BEN, THE READING ROOMS, 22:30, £tbc

SUN 4 NOV LUVA ANNA, ROOT SYSTEM, KOBAI & MORE, THE DOGHOUSE, 16:15, free MON 5 NOV CAPTIAN, FAT SAM’S, 20:00, £8 THE HOOSIERS & SUPPORT, FAT SAM’S, 19:30, £6 TUE 6 NOV LADYSMITH BLACK MOMBAZO, CAIRD HALL, 19:30, £25/23

70s, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

THE FRETS, MODERN CULTURE, LIMBER & MORE, DEX-

Anthems, RnB, hip hop & the rest, 23:00, £5/£7/£3.50

Anthems, RnB, hip hop & the rest, 23:00, £5/£7/£3.50 DJ ROBERT, BACK TO REALITY, FAT SAM’S, Funky House, 23:00, £5/£6/£3.50 SUN 25 NOV TOUNGUE IN CHEEK, FAT SAM’S, You pick the pop, 23:00, £3.50/£5/£2.50

SAT 10 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, SAT 24 NOV DJ RICKY HARRISON, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 1, DJ ROBERT WALKER, BACK TO REALITY, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, Funky house, 23:00, £5/£7/£3.50

SUN 11 NOV TOUNGUE IN CHEEK, FAT SAM’S, You pick the pop, 23:00, £3.50/£5/£2.50

MON 12 NOV DJ JOE BRODIE(TAY FM), DIS-

COTECA, FAT SAM’S, Pop RnB & indie in the mix, 23:00, £4/£3.50

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SHOW, Work generated by members of DCA print studio exploring the theme of ‘A Journey’., 10-OCT, 27-NOV, 10:30, 17:30, free

DCA PRINT GALLERY, CHRISTMAS PRINT EXHIBITION, special Christmas DCA Print Exhibition made by local and visiting artists, 28-NOV, 15-JAN, 10:30, 17:30, free

GENERATOR, ART EXHIBITION, KATIE ORTON, Part of the Young Athenians group a collection of drawings and artwork will be displayed., 10-NOV, 9-DEC, 10:00, 17:00/17:30,

QUEENS GALLERY, CRAFT FAIR, AUTUMN

SHOWCASE, A collection of illustrations, pottery, jewellery & paintings., 27-OCT, 10-NOV, , free

CRAFT FAIR, CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION, 17-NOV, 29-JAN, 10:00, 17:00/17.30, free

TURES, DUNDEE REP ENSEMBLE, Witty, fast paced play

from the 70s, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

THE KARMA LOUNGE, FAT SAM’S, All your faves from the

video pieces by 24 UK based artists, 1-NOV, 2-DEC, 10:30, 17:30, free

PORT BAR, 19:30, £12

THU 15 NOV DEACON BLUE PLUS GUESTS, CAIRD

THE KARMA LOUNGE, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 3, All your faves

NEW MOVING IMAGES FROM THE UK, 24 film and

THEATRE

house, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

skool house, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

DCA INFORMATION ROOM, FRESH MOVES:

BIFFY CLYRO & SUPPORT, FAT SAM’S, 19:30, £16 WED 7 NOV MISHKIN, AORTA, DANA WALKER & SHOTGUN JACK, THE DOGHOUSE, £tbc THU 8 NOV TOM MCRAE & BRIAN WRIGHT, WEST-

SAT 10 NOV SCRATCH PERVERTS, THE READING

BOOGIEBUG, HONEY, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, New & old skool

DCA, PLAY THE STORY, MATTHEW BUCKINGHAM,

DCA PRINT GALLERY, JOURNEY, GROUP

Chart & floor fillers, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

BOOGIEBUG, HONEY, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, New & old

spired by music, song lyrics and films, these video works feature individuals involved in various activities from singing to sailing, 15-SEP, 4-NOV, 10:30, 17:30, free New York artist, 17-NOV, 20-JAN, 10:30, 17:30, free

FRI 9 NOV AUTODISCO WITH PETE HERBERT, THE

Chart & floor fillers, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

DCA, KEEP ON DOING, JOHANNA BILLING, In-

thems with Howie on live drum, 23:00, £4/£3.50 DJ BUDDYLUV, DUVET, FAT SAM’S LEVEL 2, Urban delights, 23:00, £4/£3.50 FRI 30 NOV THE KARMA LOUNGE, from the 70s, 23:00, £4/£6/£3.50

23:00, £4/£3.50

ARTS

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TERS, 20:00, £tbc

FRI 16 NOV ALEX SMOKE, THE READING ROOMS, 22:30, £tbc

SUN 18 NOV THE LITTLE KICKS, SLEEPCURVED, THE DOGHOUSE, £3

CAPTIAN, WESTPORT BAR, 19:00, £8 THU 22 NOV THE GET DOWNS, THE BREAKERS, THE DEFENDED, PAN HANDLES, DEXTERS, 20:00, £tbc SAT 24 NOV THE NEXTMEN, READING ROOMS, 22:30

LISTINGS

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DUNDEE REP THEATRE, PLAYHOUSE CREA-

about the first women in Britain to be allowed to perform on stage. Set over 350 years ago., 1-NOV, 10-NOV, , £16/£12/£5/£2

FAUSTUS, HEADLONG THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH NUFFIELD THEATRE, Christopher Marlowes’ criti-

cally acclaimed adaptation entwining tales from medieval Germany and Modern day East London., 13-NOV, 17NOV, , £16/£12/£5/£2

DANCE MONKEY BOY, DANCE, RAYMOND MEARNS, PAUL PIRIE & ALLAN CHALMERS, Improvi-

sational comedy featuring a mix of topical stand up, games, characters and music. 16-NOV, 16-NOV, 23:00, £10/£8 MORE, DEXTERS, 20:00, £tbc

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Hot new kid Electro-indie Only 3 years old, check it oot & bring lollipops, 8pm, £6.50 TWO GALLANTS, BLITZEN TRAPPER, CLASSIC GR, 7pm, THU 1 NOV BRUCIE BONUS PRESENTS, THINK:FIRE + £10 2 CATCH A THIEF, BARFLY, , 8pm, £8 THE VIOLETS + POPCORN FIEND + THE MEGA MEN + THE STRANGLERS, ABC, Veteran /new wave, 7pm, £20 THE RETROFRETS, BARFLY, , 7:30pm, £6 THE CAPULETS, THE RED LIGHTS, RIESER, BOX, 7pm, STEREO TOTAL (BERLIN) + FANGS (GLASGOW) W/DJ’S Free TIL 3AM JD TWITCH (OPTIMO), MATHIAS SCHWARZ XPLICIT, PENDULUM, ARCHES, Superstar D’n’B, 10pm, (BERLIN) + NEIN NEIN NEIN, THE ADMIRAL, Electro-yaaa?, £15 8pm, £7

OBVIOUSLY FOUR BELIEVERS / CLOSEST ORGAN / FAKE FROWN RECORDS PRESENTS, LOOKER + IAMBURNOUT, 13TH NOTE, Bluesy , 9pm, £4 CHEMIST + CARAGH NUGENT, BARFLY, New York pop, DANANANANAYKROYD, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, double-drum- 8pm, £5 ming hardcore punk, 8pm, £TBC ENVY, ARCHES, Japanese hardcore, 7:30pm, £7.50 AMIINA + JOSH GEFFIN, KING TUTS, Icelandic - & that’s DAVID GRAY, CARLING ACADEMY, Coffee table mum muvery important - experimental post-folk, 8:30pm, £10

FRI 2 NOV THESE EYES ARE CAMERAS, ROCKINSOUL, THE ELVIS SUICIDE, VARNA, BOX, 7pm, Free THE VERVE, CARLING ACADEMY, First gig in nine years, 7pm, £29.50

THE SHERMANS + DELORENTOS + AIRSPIEL, KING TUTS,

8:30pm, £5

POPSHOP PRESENTS, THE PHANTOM BABC 2, A ghostly surprise, 12midnight, £6

THE NATIONAL + ST. VINCENT, ABC, Austere songsters,

sic, 7pm, £27.50

COMEBACK KID + PARKWAY DRIVE + CANCER BATS + THIS IS HELL + THE WARRIORS**OVER 14’S.DOORS 7.30PM, KING TUTS, , 7:30pm, £12 BLACK LIPS, ABC 2, American jokers, 7pm, £8.50 BIFFY CLYRO, BARROWLANDS, , 7pm, £16 FRI 9 NOV TOM MCRAE + BRIAN WRIGHT, KING TUTS, Singer-songwriter, 8:30pm, £12

PCL, THE SHINS, VAMPIRE WEEKEND, BARROWLANDS,

Natalie Portman says “they’ll change your life”. Also, the support is hotly-tipped., 7pm, £15.50 THE HAZEY JANES + RILEY BRIGGS (ABERFELDY) + SAN TOY PLUS GUESTS, ABC 2, Emotional local boys, SOL DIABLOS + THE NORTH COUNTRY RAMBLERS, 7pm, £6 BARFLY, Londoners, coming up here with their gentle pop, PCL PRESENTS, OKKERVIL RIVER, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Very stealing our jobs, 8pm, £6 metrosexual, 7:30pm, £TBC THE DONNAS, CATHOUSE, All-female, b7pm, £12 ASM PRESENTS, LUVA ANNA + THE CORELLOS + THE JESSE MALIN, CLASSIC GR 7pm, £10 MANIKEES + PAGE 6, BARFLY, Dundonians. Better than HIGHWATTERS WITH GUESTS, ABC 2, 7pm, £6 The View., 8pm, £6 GROOVE ARMADA, BARROWLANDS, Superstylin’ beat JELLO BIAFRA, ARCHES, Dead Kennedy’s man, 7:30pm, masters, 7pm, £20 £15 CONTRADICTIONS, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, , 8pm, £TBC FOREIGNER, ABC, 80s gold, 7pm, £29.50 CLOCKWORK + THE GOODNIGHTS + STOWAWAY DEACON BLUE, CARLING ACADEMY, Ricky Ross sings the BLUE + RIVIERE, BARFLY, , 8pm, £5 fading soft- star blues, 7pm, £25 27 CLUB / + GUESTS, 13TH NOTE, Funk, 9pm, £TBC 7pm, £11

SAT 3 NOV

SAT 10 NOV WELCOME TO SPOOK CLUB + ALL

ABOUT THE DOTS, THE ADMIRAL, Local , 8pm, £TBC THE DELUSIONAL, LE TEEF, THE HARDY SOULS, THE TOM MCRAE + BRIAN WRIGHT, KING TUTS, Singer-songSWEET LEAVES, BOX, , 7pm, Free writer, 8:30pm, £12 THE CHARLATANS, ABC, Ramshackle northern swaggerASM PROMOTIONS PRESENTS, THE ROUTES + THE ers, 7pm, £25 DOLEDRUMS + DESERT SONS, BARFLY, Bluesy , 8pm, £5 GROOVE ARMADA, BARROWLANDS, Superstylin’ beat NUTS & SEEDS PRESENTS, SUNBURNED HAND OF THE masters, 7pm, £20 MAN -TATTIE TOES, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Experimental madEZIO, KING TUTS, Art-school , 8:30pm, £10 ness, 8pm, £TBC BSD BMX AWARDS PARTY, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, 8pm, £TBC ORANGE GOBLIN + LSD + STITCH, BARFLY, 8pm, £10 BÊBADO, QMU, Local boys, 10pm, £7.50 SPEAK LOUDER PRESENTS, KNUCKLEDUST / SUN 4 NOV THE SPORES FEAT MOLLY MCGUIRE ACTIONS BROKEN OATH / BURNING SCARS OF BETRAYAL, 13TH (QOTSA) + THE PISTON EFFECT + DARKEST OF PERU + NOTE, Hardcore, 8:30pm, £5 PILOT EPISODE, BARFLY, Californian rockers, 8pm, £7 HOT HOT HEAT, ORAN MOR, Canadian angular rockers, THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG, ARCHES, Pogue-like 7:30pm, £11

GOOD SHOES, ABC 2, for the kids-in-the-know, 7pm, £9 BLEEDING HEARTS BRIGADE, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Indie, 7:30pm, £TBC GLOBAL BATTLE OF THE BANDS, ARCHES, a battle bePCL PRESENT, BISHOP ALAN + GUESTS, THE ADMIRAL, 8pm, tween bands armed with snowglobes, 7pm, £TBC £TBC

IS THIS MUSIC?, FRIENDS OF THE BRIDE / STEVIE JACKBEYOND ALL REASON + YASHIN + DANA WALKER + SON / SAY, 13TH NOTE, Heading the ‘nu-croon’ scene GLAMOUR OF THE KILL, BARFLY, Hard /Metal, 8pm, £5 since…last year, 9pm, £TBC LUMMOX / + GUESTS, 13TH NOTE, Horns & reappraisals, FAIR TO MIDLAND + TERRA DIABLO + RED SNOW9pm, £TBC MAN, KING TUTS, Lite metal, 8pm, £6.50 THE APPLE SCRUFFS + YELLOW BENTINES + THE RAIL + THE BRANT BJORK & THE BROS + SUNS OF THUNDER + EL LITTLE KICKS, BARFLY, , 8pm, £5 CHUPACABRAS, BARFLY, Kyuss & Fu Manchu guy with SCOUT NIBLETT+ DEVASTATIONS + HOW TO SWIM, KING Matt & Luke Goss. Mibbe., 8pm, £10

TUTS, Sparse kookiness, 8:30pm, £8

NUTS & SEEDS PRESENTS, THE WHITE MICE-DJ SCOTCH CHAFFINCH RECORDS, EARLY SONGS & JAMES WILLIAM EGG, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, “Churning oscillator attacks, belly- HINDLE, 13TH NOTE, Avant-guitar, 9pm, £TBC bustin’ bass, & demonic wails”, 8pm, £TBC

FRI 16 NOV STONESTHROW, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Indie, 8pm, Free

PCL PRESENTS, DIRTY PROJECTORS, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Re-imagining Black Flag’s ‘Damaged’ from memory, 8pm, £6.50

DARK FUNERAL, CATHOUSE, BlackMetal, 7pm, £13.50 MONO/ JESU, ORAN MOR, Metal, 7:00pm, £10 ASSEMBLY WITH DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP, ARCHES, EXAMPLE, ARCHES, London hip-hop, 10:30pm, £7.50 Beardy poetic MC & laptop madness, 6pm, £5 DISCHARGE + PRAIRIE DUGZ + THE MURDERBURGALEXISONFIRE + SASOIN + THE GHOST OF A THOUSABC, ERS, BARFLY, Veteran anarchists, 8pm, £10 Post-hardcore, 7pm, £13.50 DARKWATER, CATHOUSE, Gothic electro, 7pm, £5 SAT 24 NOV THE SPIRALS + INNER SIGHT + LOCAL CAPTAIN + THE BLIZZARDS + SLEEPERCURVE, KING TUTS, TOUR GUIDE, BARFLY, Nu-shoegaze/dream-pop, 8pm, £5 8:30pm, £8 ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK TASTE OF CHAOS 2007 FT ., BONDE DO ROLE, ARCHES, Baile funk, 8pm, £7.50 AMY WINEHOUSE, BARROWLANDS, Controversial song- THE USED + RISE AGAINST + AIDEN + GALLOWS, CARLING stress, 7pm, £20

ACADEMY, Emo, 5pm, £22.50

12 DIRTY BULLETS + THE MODELZ + RAMIKA + ASSOCIATE, BARFLY, , 8pm, £5 ST DELUXE / SYMBOLICS / TIBI LUBIN, 13TH NOTE, Indie

THE SYMPTOMS + MUST BE SOMETHING + BULLITT FOR PABLO + JAMES KEEGANS, BARFLY, Indie, 8pm, £5 THE ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE, KING TUTS, remember when

SAT 17 NOV VIVA STEREO PRESENTS, VIVA STEREO

NUTS & SEEDS PRESENTS, FAT WORM OF ERROR-THAT FUCKING TANK, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Freeform, 8pm, £TBC DIVINE COILS / SERFS / LANTERNS, 13TH NOTE, Minimal,

9pm, £TBC

they were touted as saviours of indie?, 8:30pm, £8

+ LIL ZE + THE HEEBIE JEEBIES + ONTHEFLY (FENCE COLLECTIVE) DJ SET + PAULY (MY LATEST NOVEL/ make no mistake, 8:45pm, £4 POPSHOP) - DJ SET, BARFLY, , 8pm, £5 THE FELT TIPS PRESENTS, THE FELT TIPS + THE METROG- SUN 25 NOV VIEUX FARKA TOURE + ZEEP, ARCHES, Malian singer-songwriter, 7pm, £12.50 NOMES + ALLY KERR, BARFLY, pop, 8pm, £5 RICO FRANCHI VIBE WITH GUESTS, ABC 2, Epic sound- THUNDER, CARLING ACADEMY, Long-lasting hard- b7pm, track attempts, 7pm, £6

PINK FLLOYD TRIBUTE, ORAN MOR, does exactly what it

£19.50

SONIC BOOM SIX + THE FLAMING TSUNAMIS + GROWN

AT HOME, KING TUTS, Dub/punk/ska/reggae, 8pm, £8 says on the tin, 7:30pm, £10 OI VA VOI, KING TUTS, Bouncy whirled music, 8:30pm, £7 PIGEON HOLE RECORDS, OSNI (FRANCE) / MY ELECMIKA, CARLING ACADEMY, Extreme falsetto pop, 7pm, TRIC LOVE AFFAIR / GDANSK / BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND, 13TH NOTE, Grungey heroin chic, 9pm, £TBC Sold Out LE RENO AMPS-THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENTBROTHER LOUIS COLLECTIVE, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, , 8pm,

ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK + QUIT YOUR DAYJOB + THE ELVIS SUICIDE + DAEDALIAN, BARFLY, Japanese, 8pm, £8 SYNERGY PRESENTS, ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES NIGHT,

JILL SCOTT - AN EVENING WITH, ABC, Soulful vocals,

NICE’N’SLEAZYS, 8pm, £TBC

£TBC

8pm, £28.50

TUE 27 NOV HE DELORENTOS + GUNDOGS + CITY +

DRIVE CAREFULLY RECORDS, DIRTY SUMMER / PUSH- PAPER AIRFORCE, BARFLY, Indie, 8pm, £5 BARTOOPEN / JEEZ LOUISE, 13TH NOTE, Freaks fae Fife, FOUR GOOD MEN, CLASSIC GR7:30pm, £14 9pm, £4 MAROON 5, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, SECC, EarAMY WINEHOUSE, BARROWLANDS, Controversial song- nest metrosexual pop, 7:30pm, £26.50 stress, 7pm, Sold Out ELECTRELANE, KING TUTS, All-female b8:30pm, £9 angry folk, 7:30pm, £14 CALVIN HARRIS, BARROWLANDS, He likes all the girls…, SUN 18 NOV THE KISSAWAY TRAIL + THE AUTUMNS EFTERKLANG, ARCHES, freeform klingity-klang, 7pm, £10 GO-RA-GA PRESENT, THE CHAP (LONDON) + Q 7pm, £12 + JACOB GOLDEN **RESCHEDULED FROM 12TH OCT, NUTS & SEEDS PRESENTS:, MARLA HANSEN, WITHOUT U, THE ADMIRAL, , 8pm, £TBC SUN 11 NOV PCL PRESENTS, VINCENT VINCENT & ORIGINAL TICKETS VALID, KING TUTS, Danish alt-rockers, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Nice’n’tweezy, 8pm, £TBC MANOR PARK ELITE + WE THROW STONES + FIRST STEP THE VILLIANS, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Retro dude, 8pm, £6.50 8:30pm, £6 2 THIRDS OF YOUTH / PAIGE, 13TH NOTE,, 9pm, £TBC TO FAILURE + SANBENITO, BARFLY, , 8pm, £5 THE BROTHERS ZAMISKOVCI, ARCHES, Eastern European SKID ROW, GARAGE, Like Guns’n’Roses, but not, 7pm, WED 28 NOV PCL, THE PIGEON DETECTIVES, BARROWGEORGE CLINTON WITH FUNK BROTHER JACK ASH- & Balkan stuff, 7:30pm, £12 £13 LANDS, Indie, 7pm, £13.50 FORD & HIS FUNK BROTHER BARCHES, P-Funk legend, RODDY HART, ORAN MOR, Singer, 7:30pm, £8.50 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, ORAN MOR, Canadian , STEVE REYNOLDS + JIM BIANCO + GAVIN THORPE, BAR7pm, £17.50 7:00pm, £12 BEVERLEY KNIGHT, ABC, nu-soul diva. No, not “new”, FLY, Singer-songwriter, 8pm, £6 EMMY THE GREAT + BALLBOY + BROTHER LOUIS COL- “nu”., 7pm, £21.50 THE SEX PISTOLS, SECC, Reformed punk legends, 7pm, SILVERSTEIN + BLESS THE FALL + VINCENT BLACK SHADLECTIVE, KING TUTS, Quirky pop, again, 8:30pm, £6.50 BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH, CLASSIC GRReggae influenced £35 OW, KING TUTS, Full-throated, 8pm, £8 EMMA FORMAN, THE HIGHWAYS, EXIT MUSIC, THE MOONSHAKER NIGHT, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, , 8pm, £TBC 3 piece, 7pm, £12.50 SAVING AIMEE + FURTHEST DRIVE HOME + TONIGHT IS MERCHANTS, BOX, Singer-songwriter, 7pm, Free KID CARPET + CYCLE OF ZEN, BARFLY, Random music on ARCHITECTS + DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL + CRY FOR SIGOODBYE + 2 THIRDS OF YOUTH, BARFLY, A modern day PCL PRESENTS, ELVIS PERKINS, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Singer- LENCE **OVER 14’S. DOORS 8PM, KING TUTS, Teenage toys, 8pm, £6 Duran Duran, 8pm, £5 songwriter, 8pm, £7.50 MILENASONG / THE KARA SEA/ OLDER & FAR AWAY, metallers, 8pm, £6.50 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, CARLING ACADEMY, on, 7pm, DEERHUNTER, ABC 2, 7:30pm, £8.50 ANY COLOR BLACK, BARFLY, American indie from Glas- 13TH NOTE, Experimental tunes, 8:30pm, £4 MON 5 NOV YOUNG KNIVES + PETE & THE PIRATES gow, 8pm, £5 MON 19 NOV THE RAVEONETTES, KING TUTS, Danish £19.50 PCL PRESENTS, JAKOBINARINA, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Peculiar + OUTSIDE ROYALTY, KING TUTS, , 8:30pm, £10 AMUSEMENT PARKS ON FIRE, BARFLY, My Vitriol tribute. duo, 8:30pm, £8.50 Icelandic punks, 8pm, £6 THE UNSEEN, CATHOUSE, punk/metal, 7pm, £8.50 THE CREEPSHOWS, BARFLY, Cabaret punk, 8pm, £7 Oh, no, my mistake, 8pm, £5 FU MANCHU, CATHOUSE, Stoner, 7pm, £10 PUNY HUMANS PROMOTIONS PRESENTS, FREUDIAN THE WHISKY WORKS / GDANSK / HYENA / STOPPARKA, DELTA AUDIO CLUB, SIMPLY RONNIE, BARFLY, JOAN OF ARKANSAS MUSIC PRESENTS, CLAIR TIERNEY / SLOP, BARFLY, Quick , 8pm, £5 Indie, 8pm, £5 STARTACCELERATOR, 13TH NOTE, Post-hardcore, 9pm, EMMA JANE / ANNA MELDRUM, 13TH NOTE, Singer-songDODGY, ABC 2, Is it good enough for you?, 7pm, £16 JOSH RITTER, CLASSIC GRSinger-songwriter, 7pm, £12.50 £TBC writer, 7pm, £3 BOY KILL BOY, ORAN MOR, , 7:30pm, £8 ACOUSTIC JAM SESSION, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Music MON 12 NOV DUKE SPIRIT + CREEPY MORONS, THU 29 NOV BARFLY & LEVI’S ONES TO WATCH PRESANDREW BIRD PLUS LONEY, DEAR, ARCHES, Singerjammed on acoustic guitars, probbly, 8pm, Free ABC 2, , 7pm, £7.50 ENTS, THE ZICO CHAIN + CAT THE DOG + THE MOTION songwriter, 7pm, £11 TUE 20 NOV TERRA DIABLO (ACOUSTIC SET)-THEARCADIAN + THE CLICKS, KING TUTS, , 8pm, £5 THEORY + MELLIFLUOUS, BARFLY, Alt, 8pm, £6 ACOUSTIC JAM SESSION, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Music ACOUSTIC JAM SESSION, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, Music jammed ATRE FALL-IDLEWILD DJS, NICE’N’SLEAZYS,, 8pm, £TBC THE DESERT SONS / CARTOONS RAISED ME / WE WERE jammed on acoustic guitars, probbly, 8pm, Free THE BLACK CRUSADE, MACHINE HEAD, TRIVIUM, on acoustic guitars, probbly, 8pm, Free PROMISED JETPACKS, 13TH NOTE, Indie, 9pm, £TBC TUE 6 NOV TESLA, GARAGE, Classic, 7pm, £17.50 DRAGONFORCE, ARCH ENEMY, SHADOWS FALL, SUNSHINE REPUBLIC / + GUESTS, 13TH NOTE, Drone, SIA, KING TUTS, Former Zero 7 singer, 8:30pm, £12.50 ROBYN, CLASSIC GRSwedish pop minx, 7pm, £8 SECC, Assorted metal, 6pm, £25 9pm, £TBC SHED SEVEN, BARROWLANDS, 90s Brit-pop, 7pm, Sold Out HOW TO SWIM-PAUL VICKERS & THE LEG, TUE 13 NOV UNKLE, ABC, James Lavelles breaks, funk QUI + SILICON VULTURES + HEY ENEMY, KING TUTS, PATRICK WOLF, ORAN MOR, exuberant & creative pop, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, , 8pm, £TBC & sould crew, 7pm, £15

MC LARS + LAST LETTER READ + YOSHI, KING TUTS, Post- SOOTH, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, , 8pm, £TBC punk laptop rap. His words, not mine., 8:30pm, £7 DELAYS, KING TUTS, pop, 8:30pm, £10 BCS BOOKINGS PRESENTS, ETERNAL LORD, BARFLY, BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, BARROWLANDS, Metal/, 7pm, £TBC

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, ORAN MOR, Radge-poppers, 7:00pm, £13

TRAIN TO WALES / ZETAS EMPIRE / SHOOT THE MESSENGER, 13TH NOTE, Pop-punk threesome, 9pm, £TBC WED 7 NOV THE HOOSIERS + GRACE + CASS LOWE, KING TUTS, , 8pm, £6 FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN, KICKTOKILL / STROSZEK / MY COUSIN I BID YOU FAREWELL, 13TH NOTE, Dark & moody, 9pm, £TBC

PCL PRESENTS, THE FIERY FURNACES, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, freeform & funny prog, but good, 8pm, £8

EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS + BRONTO SKYLIFT, BARFLY, LA Rockers, 8pm, £5 BIFFY CLYRO, BARROWLANDS, , 7pm, £16 BEIRUT, ARCHES, A young troubador with french horns, 7pm, £12.50

THU 8 NOV PCL PRESENTS, YACHT, NICE’N’SLEAZYS,

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Leather jackets & shades, 7pm, £16

PCL PRESENT, BEACHHOUSE + GUESTS, THE ADMIRAL, Slow, bright, eerie, dark, 8pm, £6

Funny boys w/ heavy guitars, 8:30pm, £8

NUTS & SEEDS PRESENTS, COWTOWN / CHOPS, 13TH NOTE, all-over-the-shop pop, 9pm, £TBC

WED 21 NOV DF PRESENTS, ST. VINCENT, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, v. talented multi-instrmentalist born Annie

Clark, 8pm, £TBC

folkpop, 9pm, £3

THU 15 NOV THE PROCLAIMERS, CARLING ACADEMY, Edinburgh’’s finest musical twins, 7pm, £22.50 NEWTON FAULKNER, ABC, Soft Irish singersong-writer, 7pm, £12

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FEATURES

Is Facebook two-faced? No Music Day

LGBT

Transgender Remembrance

SHOWCASE Jessica Harrison

FILM

The Darjeeling Limited DVD

THEATRE

Theatre Workshop’s Endgame Comedy: Bruce Fummey

BOOKS Doris Lessing

GAMES

Freedom in gaming

ART

New Work Scotland

SOUNDS

Dillinger Escape Plan Kings Of Leon

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Kings Of Electro Onur Özer

West Brewing Company

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SOPHIE KYLE RUPERT THOMSON

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

CHARLOTTE RODENSTEDT

PRODUCTION EDITOR

LEIGH PEARSON

ONLINE & SOUNDS EDITOR

DAVE KERR

SALES EXECUTIVE

LARA MOLONEY ALEX BURDEN

FRI 30 NOV WITHIN TEMPTATION, BARROWLANDS, Gothic

PAUL GREENWOOD

THEATRE EDITOR

HUGO FLUENDY

hard, 7pm, £16

BOOKS EDITOR

KEIR HIND

LGBT EDITOR

NINE

GAMES EDITOR

JOSH WILSON

COMEDY EDITOR

EMMA LENNOX

EATING & DRINKING EDITOR

RUTH MARSH

CLUBS LISTINGS

ANDREW COOKE

LISTINGS ASSISTANT

HAMZA KHAN

LAYOUT ASSISTANTS

MATT MACLEOD

Dillinger Escape Plan, pg 28

EDITOR

£TBC

The Darjeeling Limited, pg 18

PUBLISHER

BEATS EDITOR

LISTINGS

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THE SKINNY TEAM

FILM EDITOR

Sounds of the sea through stacks of hardware, 7pm, £4 THU 22 NOV SUM 41, BARROWLANDS, Punk for tod- CROWDED HOUSE, SECC, Aussie soft-rockers, 7pm, £32.50 dlers, 7pm, £18 LOGAN, CATHOUSE, Melodic hard, 7pm, £5 RILO KILEY, CLASSIC GRpowerpop, 7pm, £12 AN EVENING WITH….NECRO, KING TUTS, Death Rap, MAX RICHTER, ARCHES, Modern composer, 7pm, £14.50 8:30pm, £12.50 MARAH, KING TUTS, ’n’roll, 8:30pm, £10 POPSHOP PRESENTS, UNTITLED MUSICAL PROJECT, ABC 2, HIVES, ABC, Swedish punks with great ties, 7pm, £16.50 Unknown Musical Style (not really, think hardcor

EATING & DRINKING

awww such cute growling, 7pm, £10

NOTE, Threatening music for scaredy-cat punks, 9pm,

Edinburgh & Glasgow Art, Comedy, Theatre, Club and Live

ROSAMUND WEST

K + M PROMOTIONS PRESENTS, THE LAST CORINTHIANS + THE VIBE + THE STEREOHEADS + THE URCHINS + DESODEGA BREAKS + SESSION 69 + BREAKPOINT + MEMLATION YES + PHARMACY + AYRIAL + GUITARS DON’T BERS OF THE WEDDING, BARFLY, Disco-punk, 8pm, £5 FLY, BARFLY, Indie, 8pm, £TBC DRAIN THE SKY (USA) / CROSS STITCHED EYES, 13TH Q WITHOUT U/ 7VWWVW / BOZILLA + FRIENDS, 13TH NOTE,

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LISTINGS

ART EDITOR

are back in town, 7pm, £24

Jessica Harrison pg 10

MARILLION SNOW-WHERE ELSE TOUR, ABC, 7pm, £20 BRING ME THE HORIZON, CATHOUSE, Young deathcore,

PAUL HEATON, KING TUTS, It’s the guy fae Beautiful South, THIN LIZZY + QUEENSRYCHE, CARLING ACADEMY, the boys

WED 14 NOV WILL HAVEN + THE MIRIMAR DISASTER 8:30pm, £12.50 THE FALLEN ANGELS CLUB PRESENTS, BOO HEWER+ TEMPERCALM, KING TUTS, Metal/, 8pm, £8 DINE, BREL, Singer-songwriter, 7:30pm, £10 TAYLOR KAYNE-MISS THE OCCUPIER-THE LEATHERETTES, NICE’N’SLEAZYS, , 8pm, £TBC NEW MODEL ARMY, GARAGE, , 7pm, £15 DRAGSTER + CUDDLY SHARK + KOBAYASHI + THE CHILD ECHO, BARFLY, Punkiness, 8pm, £6 ATREYU, QMU, Metal/ fae California, 7:00pm, £12.50 LAKI MERA (SINGLE LAUNCH), 13TH NOTE, Electronica/

7:30pm, £12.50

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GLASGOW LIVE

CONTRIBUTORS WRITERS R yan Agee, Liam Arnold, Mat t Arnoldi, Finbar Bermingham, James Blake, Jamie Borthwick, Ally Brown, Darren Carle, Niall O’Conghaile, Dave Cook, Will Cooper, Heather Crumley, Chris Cusack, Richard Dennis, Lucy Gallwey, Bram Gieben, Billy Hamilton, Josh Coppersmith-Heaven, Sarah Hunter, Zainab Hussain, Barry Jackson, Ema Johnson, Hamza K, Johnny Langlands, Parker Langley, Ali Maloney, Debbie Martin, Franck Martin, Ted Maul, Adam McCully, Jack McFarlane, Rosie McLean, Sean Michaels, John Millar, Nick Mitchell, Paul Mitchell, Lara Moloney, Jonathan Robert Muirhead, Nine, Frank Ockenfels, Jonny Ogg, Struan Otter, Scott Ramage, Dylan Reed, Darren Rhymes, Jenny Richards, Ian Sankey, Peter Simpson, Laura Smith, Graeme Strachan, Fraser Thomson, Gareth K Vile, Peter Walker, Lindsay West, Rosamund West, Josh Wilson, Alex Woodward, Robert Wringham.

ROBBIE F THOMSON IAN SINKAMBA REBECCA TAGGART SUBEDITORS

PAUL GREENWOOD, NICK MITCHELL, ROSAMUND WEST

www.skinnymag.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHERS/ILLUSTRATORS Kate Anderson, Eilidh Baxter, Mike Byrne, Derek Chapman, Jethro Collins, Lewis Killin, Colin Macdonald, Kate V. Robertson, Paul Ryding.

NOVEMBER 07

THE SKINNY

TUESDAY HEARTBREAK FUNK JAM SESSION, DJ AKI, 2 GUITARS & LIVE DRUMS, THE JAZZ BAR, guests invited to jam, 23:30,

BOY KILL BOY, THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie- that’s so NOW,

by Lindsay West

We Like Your Style: Lovefoxxx from

For those of you as yet unfamiliar with the good work of CSS, let’s begin at the beginning. CSS are – with the utmost respect and in the best possible way – the sort of band eight year-olds would start (albeit extremely talented, urbane, and media sav vy eight year-olds). A million miles away from the painfully cool and unbearably dull rock star posturing favoured by many in the industry, CSS bound onto every stage they’re booked on with the ceaseless enthusiasm of an accidentally lit fireworks box, with Lovefoxxx the big, spinning, sparking Catherine Wheel set up centre stage.

With no trace of makeup, and a myriad of sequin-adorned traditional fashion ‘don’ts’ to wear every night, Lovefoxxx turns the whole female pop star gig on its head completely, insisting that you don’t have to be on-trend and pretty-pretty to be adored. And, even if you do have this last weapon in your arsenal (which, judging by her recent, jaw-droppingly beautiful spread in Pop magazine, Lovefoxxx does in abundance): you don’t have to use it in order to sell records. If Lovefoxxx were a lesser mortal, maybe we’d only know her for her Klaxon boyfriend or her place on the NME Cool List; but as things stand, these, along with the crazy-arm dancing and the two-tone leggings, are mere trimmings on the cornucopian buffet-table of assets the girl drags along behind her. The CSS bandwagon draws up outside Glasgow Academy next month – do yourself a favour, and get the hell on it. Lovefoxxx, we like your style.

BARRY

CALLUM

WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CANSEIDESERSEXY

TRAMPOLINE GIG NIGHTS, COME IN TOKYO, UNDERBELLY, LIONS.CHASE.TIGERS, WEE RED BAR, Noisy &

THU 8 NOV THE REMNANT KINGS, THE HOO-

KARES, GILDOZA, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, Local

ROZ

Gutter Talk

SUSAN W.

photos: www.jethrocollins.co.uk

CALLUM ROSS, 24, SUSIE’S SONG? DINER Kings of Leon - Fans

MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS?

WHAT MOOD ARE YOU IN TODAY &

QUESTION?

Why is the world round? Happy, because I’m being interviewed. SUSAN, 30, PICNIC BASKET

No. Will I be dying as a happy person or a rich person? I hope someone can give me the answers.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE STREET IN

MOOD?

EDINBURGH, AND WHY?

Happy, it’s been a busy day - do you ROZ COLLINS, 29,TRIBE TATTOO want to come and help me with the PARLOUR dishes?! MOOD? FAVOURITE STREET? Pretty mellow: It’s been an average Arthur’s Seat - it’s right in the centre day in the shop. of the city, you get a cracking view FAVOURITE STREET? and its only ten minutes from any- I like Victoria st – cause it is quite where. cutesy and old, Cockburn Street beMOST OVERUSED WORD? cause its rocky / alternative kids and Anything else? unusual shops…and I like W N St WHEN DO CUSTOMERS MAKE YOU – because I work here and everyone SMILE? knows each other. Virtually all the time – we have a MOST OVERUSED WORD? good relationship with nearly all our Awesome customers. WHEN DO CUSTOMERS MAKE YOU WORST CUSTOMERS? SMILE? When they get tattoos they We get the odd awkward person really like, and it totally changes their and we deal with them in our own outlook on things. special way… QUESTION? MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS? Why is President Bush still in power? Motorbiking and Mountain Biking Monthly. SUSAN WARREN, 31, STUDENT

Gillespie Crescent; it has lots of nice trees and I want to live there when I’m old, and West Nicholson Street because it has Susie’s and lots of good shops. WHAT IS YOUR MOST OVERUSED WORD?

Probably. WHEN DO CUSTOMERS MAKE YOU SMILE?

When they smile. WHO ARE THE MOST ANNOYING CUSTOMERS?

Some Yahs, they can be rude. DO YOU EVER READ/ BUY ANY MAGAZINES OR PAPERS?

The Guardian, the Independent, Edinburgh Evening N ews, The Skinny. ONE SONG YOU CANT STOP SINGING?

Cat Stevens - Here Comes My Baby ... no don’t put that its a crap song. I SONG? MOOD? don’t like that song! T he new Jame s Blunt or A my Happy, because it‘s chilly and fresh ONE QUESTION YOU WOULD LIKE AN Macdonald. outside.

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FAVOURITE STREET?

I want to know how people syntheti- ABDULLAH, 50, MOSQUE cally make honey without bees? Can KITCHEN ADVISOR that be possible? MOOD? My mood is conne cted to the BARRY, 28, THE BLIND POET weather and I’m happy today.

The Royal Mile; there are always lots of people on it - locals and tourists and lots of good shops for both.

MOOD?

WHEN DO CUSTOMERS MAKE YOU

MOST OVERUSED WORD?

Really.

Not a bad mood actually – I’m off The Meadows, because I like to see tonight and I’m going out for a few green things always. beers. MOST OVERUSED WORD? FAVOURITE STREET? Peace be with you (assalamu alaiGrassmarket – it’s a good drinking kum) area. WHEN DO CUSTOMERS MAKE YOU

SMILE?

MOST OVERUSED WORD?

SONG?

SMILE?

When they apologise before they ask for a difficult book that I need to look up. MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS?

Sunday Herald, the Guardian.

Probably.

If they meet my needs and my de- Tori Amos - Mary. mands, and they comply to my ad- QUESTION? SMILE? vice. Why does the council constantly dig When they’re in a good mood and WORST CUSTOMERS? up streets, redo them and then come they say thanks. Black minded people. and dig them up again? I need to know!

WHEN DO CUSTOMERS MAKE YOU

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21:30, £4

American rhythms, 20:30, £3/£2

VOCES DEL SUR, THE JAZZ BAR, Sweet & savoury South

WHITE MICE, DJ SCOTCH EGG, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR,

THE FREAKY FAMILY, 100% ORGANIC HIP HOP LIVE SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, Groove 4-piece, 23:30, FRI 23 NOV WYND, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD,

FLATLINER, SOMEONE’S SON, OLIWA, COHOLIC, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Indie, 19:00, £5

THE SANDALS OF MAJESTY, GASGIANT, VACUNAUT, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Post-punk fae France, 20:00, £5

YEASAYER, THE VALKARYS, THE HIVE, psychedelic indie,

indie, 21:30, £4

19:00, £6

19:30, £10

20:30, £4/£3

OH SUSANNA!, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Singer-songwriter,

BIG WORD POETRY, JENNY LINDSAY, THE JAZZ BAR,

ETERNAL LORD, WISH FOR WINGS, THE HIVE, Metal &, 19:00, £4

EDINBURGH UNI HISTORY HISTORY SOCIETY, THE JAZZ

THE FREAKY FAMILY, 100% ORGANIC HIP HOP LIVE SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, Groove 4-piece, 23:30 FRI 16 NOV PEARL JAMMING, BANNERMAN’S UNDER-

BAR, FUNDRAISER WITH PARTY FUN!, 20:30, £3

WORLD, Pearl Jam Tribute, 21:30, £5

THE FREAKY FAMILY, 100% ORGANIC HIP HOP LIVE SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, Groove 4-piece, 23:30, THE UNDERTONES, THE LIQUID ROOM, You know, Teen-

STRING DRIVEN THING, CABARET VOLTAIRE, 19:00, £6 NEIL MCSWEENEY, + SUPPORT, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, singer-songwriter, 19:30, 22:00, £4

NEW FOUND SOUND, LITTLE DOSES, BLIND SUMMIT, DESCARTES, PO NA NA, Indie, 19:00, 22:00, £5 tishman, 19:00, £18-22 LAVOTCHKIN, SECTA ROUGE, THE BLACK CHAIN, FRI 9 NOV CEILIDH, HLI FEATURING KEN GOURLAY, HITCHER, OMERTA, THE HIVE, Hardcore, 18:00, £5 ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Ceilidh, 20:00, (£8) 10 PUBLIC INFORMATION, THE JAZZ BAR, Cool Jazzy 4-piece, 20:30, £3/£2 DIRTY KUDOS, SPROUTING TWIGS, BANNERMAN’S EDGAR BROUGHTON BTHE LIQUID ROOM, Veteran outsidUNDERWORLD, Wah-wahs & swaggers, 21:30, £4 THE CINEMATICS, THE VIVIANS, THEATRE FALL, CABA- ers, 19:00, £12 FUTURISTIC RETRO CHAMPIONS, NONSTOPCAMELS, RET VOLTAIRE, I, glam-punk, indie-electro, 19:00, £6 RANDAN DISCOTHEQUE, WITHERED HWEE RED BAR, BIFFY CLYRO, CORN EXCHANGE, 19:00, £16 Art-school Indie, singer-songwriter, everything!, 19:00, I FLY SPITFIRES NIGHT, CUTTING PINK WITH KNIVES, 22:00, £5 DEADBOYROBOTICS, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Weird but SAT 17 NOV THE LITTLE KICKS, BANNERMAN’S UNDERgood indie-somethingorother, 20:00, £5 WORLD, Indie, 21:30, £4 NEW FOUND SOUND, WE WERE PROMISED JETNEW FOUND SOUND, CHUTES, THE LITTLE KICKS, BROPACKS, THE FUSILIERS, THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT, PO NA NA, Promising weegies, 19:00, 22:00, £5 KEN RECORDS & ACTION GROUP, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, Four of the best wee bands in Scotl21:30, £5 MOLESTA EWENEMENT, THE BONGO CLUB, Polish hipJOSEPH ARTHUR, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Singer-songwriter, hop, 19:00, 22:00, £(13) 15 19:00, £12 JAZZ BAR QUARTET, THE JAZZ BAR, STONKING LIVE NEW FOUND SOUND, THE CHIARA L’S, THE SPHYGZ, JAZZ, 20:30, £3/£2 TECHOPHOBES, PO NA NA, post-punk, 19:00, 22:00, £5 THE WHISKY CATS & DJ, SKUNK FUNK, THE JAZZ BAR, RBRBRB, ID PARADE, 96 TEARS, THE ARK, Indie-dance, FUNKY 5-PIECE, 23:30, £5/£3 age Kicks n ‘at, 19:00, £14

WEST NICHOSON STREET, EDINBURGH WHY?

CSS, GLASGOW ACADEMY, 5 DEC, 7PM, £15.50

SUSAN

local ’n’roll, 19:00, 22:00, £4

ABDULLAH

Metal & Grindcore, 18:30, £6

HUNK, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, French hard /metal,

“Churning oscillator attacks, belly-bustin’ bass, & dedahling, 19:00, £8 monic wails”, 20:00, £6(5) WED 7 NOV BRITISH SEA POWER, CABARET VOLTAIRE, FRIBO, PLEASANCE CABARET BAR, Folk, 20:00, £6 Indie, 19:00, £13 EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE JAZZ SIXSTARHOTEL, + SUPPORT, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Irish BAR, Open Rehearsal, 17:00, alt, 20:00, £4 (5) NEW PIANO FUNDRAISER, BRIAN KELLOCK, THE JAZZ WE ARE SCIENTISTS, POTTEROW, Indie, 19:00, £14 BAR, THE FIRST OF SEVERAL EVENTS TO RAISE MONEDINBURGH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE JAZZ EY FOR A NEW BABY GR20:30, £5 BAR, Open Rehearsal, 17:00, BLACK SPRING ROCKS, THE JAZZ BAR, MUSIC TO MAKE EXPOSED, THE JAZZ BAR, Monthly singer / songwriter GIRLS DANCE, 23:30, night with various usigned acts, 20:30, £2 THU 15 NOV DRESS CODE: A TATTOO, KEYSIDE BLACK SPRING ROCKS, THE JAZZ BAR, MUSIC TO MAKE STRIKE, THE SQUARE PEG, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, GIRLS DANCE, 23:30, Punk & psychobilly, 21:30, £5

SKINNY jeans

Welcome, one and all, to the first in Skinny Jeans’ sporadic salutations in the general direction of those extra special individuals who, in these conservative times, dare to stick their heads above the style parapet. A periodic vote of thanks to cut out and keep (should you so desire), We Like Your Style will be doling out bear hugs and hair-mussings to deserving pop culture mavericks. We begin this month with lead singer and head rabble-rouser for Brazilian electro-pop outfit, CSS: the one-woman joy machine that is Luisa “Lovefoxxx” Matsushita.

WED 14 NOV ARCANE KORE, SUPERFUDGEC-

COMPETITION!

THE PROCLAIMERS, THE PLAYHOUSE, Singalong-a-scot-

THE PROCLAIMERS, THE PLAYHOUSE, geeky Scottish twins, 19:00, £18-22

MY ELECTRIC LOVE AFFAIR, THE CITY RISES, AUTOMATIQ & THE SHELLSUIT MASSACRE, WEE RED BAR, Epic & loud local, 19:00, 22:00, Free

SAT 10 NOV TOURETTES, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, Indie, 21:30, £4

RODDY HART, LEEROY STAGGER, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Singer-songwriter, 19:00, £9

MACIEJ MALENCZUK, THE BONGO CLUB, Polish singer/ songwriter, 19:00, 22:00, £10 (12) TRIO JAZZ, THE JAZZ BAR, Afternoon variable line-up, 15:30, WORLD PREMIERE, THE JAZZ BAR, 5 excellent players play together for the first time, 20:30, £3/£2 JAM RE-START, THE LIQUID ROOM, The Jam Tributeers, 19:30, £10

SUN 18 NOV SUNDAY SINGERS SESSION, THE JAZZ

10-piece, 19:00, 22:00, £5

UNCLE EARL, THE BONGO CLUB, All-female bluegrass b19:30, £12 (14)

together for the first time, 20:30, £3/£2

DUFUS, THE LOVE GESTURES, WEE RED BAR, wacky outsider folk, 19:00, 22:00, £5

SUN 11 NOV DELTA AUDIO CLUB, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, Indie, 21:30, £4

DARREN HAYMAN, THE FELT TIPS, MEURSAULT , THE ARK, Ex-Hefner man, 19:30, £TBC

SUNDAY SINGERS SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, Weekly spot for jazz vocalists, 20:30, £3/£2 EASY SUNDAY, THE JAZZ BAR, Groovy Lounge, Crooners & Anything Goes, from Vegas & Go-Go DJs Sam José & Tall Paul, 23:30, EASY SUNDAY, THE JAZZ BAR, Groovy Lounge, Crooners & Anything Goes, from Vegas & Go-Go DJs Sam José & Tall Paul, 23:30, EDINBURGH, RIOT, THE LIQUID ROOM, Local bands, 18:30, 23:00, £5

MON 12 NOV SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, PLUS SUPPORT TBC, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Freeform

psychedelic from Massachussets, 20:00, £5(6) THE JAZZ BAR BIG BTHE JAZZ BAR, 20:00, £3/£2 THE LATE GREAT JAM SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, players drop in to jam, always a surprise, 22:00,

TUE 13 NOV INDAFUSION, SUPER ADVENTURE

CLUB, JACOB FLYNCH, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Psychedelic indie- from Dunfermline, 20:00, £4

ECAT, BOURNE DAVIS KANE, THE BONGO CLUB, Jazz, 19:45, 22:30, £6 (10)

Falkirk b19:00, 22:00, £5

VANTAGE POINT, + SUPPORT TBC, THE ARK, Indie, 19:30, £TBC

MORW.A, FU, THE BONGO CLUB, Polish hip-hop, 19:00, 22:00, £TBC

MAGIC HAT, THE JAZZ BAR, 20:30, £3/£2 SKUNKFUNK, UNCLE SAMSON, THE JAZZ BAR, 13-piece vocal-fronted funk-bank, 23:30, £5/£3

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS, THE LIQUID ROOM, average pie, 19:30, £9

THE LOVE GOODS, EIGHT LINE POEM, FISHTANK FRANK, WEE RED BAR, Local, 19:00, 22:00, Free SAT 24 NOV JOE VITERBO, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, Indie, 21:30, £4

SCREAMING BANSHEE AIRCREW, ROME BURNS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, goth-cabaret, 19:00, £6

PLASTIC ANIMALS, + SUPPORT, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Mumblers & screamers, 19:30, £TBC

CLASSIC CLAPTON, PLEASANCE CABARET BAR, Eric Clapton tribute, 19:30, £11

NEW FOUND SOUND, RECORD PLAYERZ, KESER, FUNKSPIEL, PO NO NA, Electro pop, 19:00, 22:00, £5 SOUL FOUNDATION, THE ARK, Soul, 19:30, £TBC TRIO JAZZ, THE JAZZ BAR, variable line-up, 15:30, MAGIC HAT, THE JAZZ BAR, With Steve Chadwick, 20:30, BUZZCOCKS, THE LIQUID ROOM, Legendary punks Ever Fallen In Love, & others!, 20:00, £15

SUN 25 NOV MATT BERRY, CABARET VOLTAIRE, aka Dixon Bainbridge, George the Volcano, Todd Rivers, or Dr Lucien Sanchez, performing “One Track Lover” & other songs from his (real) new album, 19:00, £12 SUNDAY SINGERS SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, Weekly spot for jazz vocalists, 20:30, £3/£2 EASY SUNDAY, THE JAZZ BAR, Groovy Lounge, Crooners & Anything Goes, from Vegas & Go-Go DJs Sam José & Tall Paul, 23:30, EDINBURGH, RIOT, THE LIQUID ROOM, Local bands, 19:00, £5

TUE 27 NOV SAVING AIMEE, FURTHEST DRIVE

HOME, TONIGHT IS GOODBYE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, A modern day Duran Duran, 19:00, £6 THE KLAXONS, CORN EXCHANGE, Something to do with nu-rave, are they?, 19:30, £13

GUITAR NIGHT, HAFTOR MEDBOE, THE JAZZ BAR, 20:30, £3/£2

TUESDAY HEARTBREAK FUNK JAM SESSION, DJ AKI, 2 GUITARS & LIVE DRUMS, THE JAZZ BAR, guests invited to jam, 23:30,

WED 28 NOV SIA, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Former Zero-7 singer, 19:00, £12.50

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE JAZZ BAR, Open Rehearsal, 17:00,

disco-punk”, 19:00, £7

drum star Billy Heart, 20:00, £3/£2

from a boundless creative imagination, 20:30, £6/£5 BLACK SPRING ROCKS, THE JAZZ BAR, MUSIC TO MAKE GIRLS DANCE, 23:30,

drop in to jam, always a surprise, 22:00,

CORDS, CHUTES, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Three of Scot-

THE JAZZ BAR BIG BTHE JAZZ BAR, 17-piece featureing

TUE 20 NOV ROONEY, CABARET VOLTAIRE, from L.A.,

19:00, £8

CHIARA GIOVANDO & DANIEL HIGGS DUO, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Higgs is fae cult punk band Lungfish, this is

his new project, 20:00, £4(5)

BILLY HART TRIO, THE JAZZ BAR, On tour with Martin Zenker & Johannes Enders, 20:30, £6/£5

TUESDAY HEARTBREAK FUNK JAM SESSION, DJ AKI, 2 GUITARS & LIVE DRUMS, THE JAZZ BAR, jam, 23:30, PARKA, JAKIL, ESKIMO, THE LIQUID ROOM, New bands, 19:00, £5

WED 21 NOV HOLLOW HEART PARLOUR, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Monthly acoustic night, 19:30, £5

SHOOGLENIFTY & TANYA TAGAQ GILLIS, THE BONGO CLUB, Scottish folk/fusion & Inuit throat singing, 20:00,

23:00, £10 (12)

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE JAZZ BAR, Open Rehearsal, 17:00,

ANDI NEATE, THE JAZZ BAR, Hugel popular Glaswegian singer / songwriter, 20:30, £5/£3

BLACK SPRING ROCKS, THE JAZZ BAR, MUSIC TO MAKE GIRLS DANCE, 23:30,

SKAVILLE UK, THE LIQUID ROOM, Guess?, 19:00, £9 BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN, JULIE FOWLIS, THE QUEEN’S HALL, Singer-songwriters, 19:30, £20

THU 22 NOV RUBIX, MY TINY ROBOTS, COME IN

TOKYO, THE FUTURISTIC RETROCHAMPIONS, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Sparky, inventive indie, 20:00, £5

JEWEL & ESK SHOWCASE, THE BONGO CLUB, Showcase GUITAR NIGHT, GRAEME STEPHEN, 20:30, £3/£2 from Jewel & Esk Valley College, 19:00, 22:00, £3 TUESDAY HEARTBREAK FUNK JAM SESSION, DJ AKI, 2 THE OCEAN, INTRONAUT, WAR FROM A HARLOT’S GUITARS & LIVE DRUMS, THE JAZZ BAR, jam, 23:30, MOUTH, ZILLAH, FRIDAY NIGHT GUNFIGHT, THE HIVE,

HEADS UP

FUNDRAISER FOR BARNARDO’S, ANNIE CHRISTIAN, THE FUSILIERS, POSTCARDS FROM HOME, THE HIGH LINES, CABARET VOLTAIRE, 19:00, £5 NEW FOUND SOUND, Y’ALL IS FANTASY ISLDAS CONTRAS, SOBAI, ROSS CLARK, PO NO NA, Great

BAR, Weekly spot for jazz vocalists, 20:30, £3/£2

WORLD PREMIERE, THE JAZZ BAR, 5 excellent players play THE LATE GREAT JAM SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, players

Motown legends, 19:30, £29.50 (£32.50)

NO 78,685 IN A SERIES OF 76,825: THE ZORRO

Indie, 21:30, £4

NEW FOUND SOUND, HOW TO SWIM, SIXPEOPLETHE ADICTS, GOLBLADE LIQUID ROOM, Punk, 19:30, £15 DAVID PATRICK’S TETRAGON, SPECIAL GUEST STAN AWAY, THE SORREN MACLEAN BPO NA NA, Passionate MON 19 NOV KID CARPET, CABARET VOLTAIRE, “Kiddy SULTZMAN, THE JAZZ BAR, A rare Scottish performance

THE FOUR TOPS, THE TEMPTATIONS, THE PLAYHOUSE,

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LISTINGS

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THU 29 NOV THE TWILIGHT SAD, BROKEN REland’s best wee bands, 19:00, £10

THIS IS MUSIC, ACTION GROUP, VIVA STEREO, BOYFRIEND / GIRLFRIEND, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Edinburgh indie-worth-seeing, 20:00, £4 NDAJE, THE BONGO CLUB, Afrobeat, ska, soul, salsa, celtic, jazz., 21:30, 02:30, £5 (6)

ULTRAVIOLET, ASHTON & MYKE, KUDOS, ASPEN GETAWAY, JONNY DOWNIE, THE HIVE, 19:00, £4 EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE JAZZ BAR, excellent 19-piece with cool vocals, 20:30, £3/£2

THE FREAKY FAMILY, 100% ORGANIC HIP HOP LIVE SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, Groove 4-piece, 23:30, SKUNKFUNK, JOE ACHESON QUARTET, THE JAZZ BAR, Cinematic soundscapes, 23:30, £5/£3

FRI 30 NOV CEILIDH, HLI FEATURING KEN GOURLAY, ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Ceilidh, 20:00, (£8) 10 KINGS DIE KINGS, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, Anthemic, 21:30, £4

JIM BOB, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Former Carter USM singer, 19:00, £6

THE GRAEME MEARNS BBETTY CUSTARD THIGHS, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, ’n’roll, 19:30, 22:30, £4

NEW FOUND SOUND, DEAD OR AMERICAN, EMERGENCY RED, AUTOSAFARI, PO NO NA, Post hardcore roc kers, 19:00, 22:00, £5 ROSE HIL DRIVE, THE ARK, ’n’roll, 19:30, £TBC LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS, THE HIVE, Funk, 19:00, £10 JUNE TABOR, THE QUEEN’S HALL, Traditional singer, 20:00, £10 (£15)

RECORD LABEL SHOWCASE, BENBECULA, WEE RED BAR, Free bands & stuff, 19:00, 22:00, Free

NOVEMBER 07 THE SKINNY

TUE 20 NOV ANTICS, THE HIVE, emo, punk & metal,

SOUL BISCUITS, SWAY, DAN GREENPEACE, CABARET

DARK PLANET OPEN MUSIC, PUBLIC, BARAKA, Come

UNKNOWN PLEASURES,

23:00, Free

play your vinyl, CDs, iPod, mp3 player or laptop, 20:30, 01:00, Free THE DIAMOND DICE, MR. JINX, MASSA, Hip hop, RnB & grime, 22:00, £5 FRUNT, DJ STUART JOHNSTON, THE LIQUID ROOM, House music all night long, 22:30, Free INDIE MIX, NICK A.K.A. & THE DALEK, PIVO CAFFE, Indie, alt, Mashup & bootlegs, 21:00, Free MOTHERFUNK, FRYER & GINO, OPAL LOUNGE, Original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 22:00, Free

RANGZEN, ED UNI TIBET SOCIETY, THE BONGO CLUB, Fundraiser, 22:00, £5

SPITFIRES SOCIAL CLUB,

RED, Indie social club, 21:00,

Free

SPLIT, EDINBURGH LOCALS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Blend of house, techno, d&b, breakbeat, healthy mid-week rave, 23:00, Free SYNTHETIC LOVE, DAVA & HOBBES, LULU, set, 20:00, £4, free b4 11pm VIBE, JAMES LONGWARTH, EGO, Weekly gay club playing chart, 23:00, £4

ZOOT SWING DANCE CLASS, SWINGERS, THE BONGO CLUB, Swing drop in classes, 19:00, 20:00, n/a

WED 21 NOV BASS INVASION, PACMAN, JOY,

VOLTAIRE, Hip hop, 23:00, £tbc

soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 22:00, Free SPITFIRES SOCIAL CLUB, RED, Indie social club, 21:00, WEE RED BAR, Old school hip hop, electro rap, funk & disco Free SPLIT, PHYSICS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Blend of house, breaks, 23:00, £4 (£3) WE WILL BREAK YOU, GARY MAC, JACEK, NIBK AKA, techno, d&b, breakbeat, healthy mid-week rave, 23:00, Free G*MAC, EGO, Breaks, 22:30, £5 (£3) SYNTHETIC LOVE, DAVA & HOBBES, LULU, set, 20:00, TROUBLE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Big gay disco to hip hop & £4, free b4 11pm broken beats, 17:00, 01:00, Free VIBE, JAMES LONGWARTH, EGO, Weekly gay club DANNY TENNENT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, ISLA BLIGE & playing chart, 23:00, £4 THE BLOND FLASH, LULU, Soul, funk, house & latin, 20:00, ZOOT SWING DANCE CLASS, SWINGERS, THE BONGO £7, free b4 12am CLUB, Swing drop in classes, 19:00, 20:00, n/a JEZ HILL, OPAL LOUNGE, Upfront & classic tunes, 22:00, WED 28 NOV BASS INVASION, PACMAN, JOY, £6, free b4 12am SAT 24 NOV 2HOT, RITCHIE RUFTONE, DJ DIZZLE & SECRET ARCADE, D&b, breakbeat, 21:00, 01:00, Free

DJ STEW-EASY, EGO, RnB, hip hop & dance - Under 18s

ONLY, 18:00, 21:00, £5

hall, 22:30, £5, £3 b4 12am

INDI-GO,

THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie & alternative, 22:30,

£2, £1 students

JERK ALERT, MC BLONDEX, AWESOME WELLS, RED, Indie meets early nineties youth club disco, 21:00, £2, free b4 11pm ROLLER DISCO, MASH & JON PLEASED, LULU, Past & future electronic, 20:00, £4.99, free b4 11pm THE PIT, THE HIVE, & metal, 23:00, Free TOXIK, DJ NU-CLEAR, OPIUM, New & old metal & hard, 20:00, Free

WE ARE … ELECTRIC, GARY MAC & GUESTS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, House, electro, tech-house with rotating guests

in the back, 23:00, £2, free b4 12am/members BARAKA, Funk, soul, disco, dancehall & reggae, 20:00, 01:00, Free THU 22 NOV ALTER EGO, PO NA NA, DJ Diverse with indie, n roll & electro, 23:00, £5 (£3) BUMP, THE LIQUID ROOM, Chart, 22:30, £2 (£1) GETTOBLAST!, THE BONGO CLUB, 8 mile style MC battle, 23:00, £5 GRAFITTI, KIPP$ & MASTER CAIRD, MEDINA, Party tunes all night, 22:00, £3 (£2) LIC IT, CITRUS CLUB, Student night, 23:00, £2, free b4 12am

POLYPHONIC SOCIAL CLUB, JACEK ZAMOJSKI & GUESTS, PIVO CAFFE, Electric mashup, 19:00, Free RED STAR INSTITUTE, LUKA, CHEF DE PARTY, KENNY BREAKS, RED, 1st birthday party, 22:00, Free RIP IT UP!, DJ DIANA, LEE TAYLOR, WEE RED BAR, Indie,

60s, electro, glam, madchester, post-punk, 22:30, £4, £3 b4 12am SALSA DISCO, CUBA NORTE, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, 22:00, 01:00, Free

SCOTTISH OPEN DECKS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007, GUESTS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Open style, 23:00, Free SIREN, FULL PHAT, THE HIVE, Electro, house, breaks & techno, 23:00, Free

SOULED OUT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, FRAZER MCGLINCHEY & GUESTS, OPAL LOUNGE, Soul, disco & dance, 22:00, £3, free b4 12am STILETTO, JEZ HILL, LULU, Electro-pop & disco, 20:00, £5, free b4 10pm

YIN-YANG, HUGGY, CRAIG SMITH, SHANGHAI (UNDERNEATH LE MONDE), House, 22:00, £6 (£3)

THE DEPARTURE LOUNGE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Jazz to breakbeats, 21:00, 01:00, Free

FRI 23 NOV CLUB, SCOTT ELLIOT, CRAIG GEE &

GAV GRANT ON ROTATION, PIVO CAFFE, Classic club music from the past 15 years, 17:00, Free CULT, DJ NICKI & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Hip hop, disco, funk & RnB, 22:00, £5, £2.50 b4 11pm DE LUXE, HUDSON CLUB, Funky house with resident DJs, 23:00, £3, free b4 12am DOGTOOTH, HENRYS CELLAR, 22:00, £5 EVOL, THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats &, 22:30, £5 FOUR CORNERS, THE BONGO CLUB, Funk, soul jazz, latin, afrobeat, 23:00, £5, £3 b4 12am GET FUNK’D, DOUBLE D & ISLA, MEDINA, Hip hop to house, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm MISFITS, THE HIVE, Indie, electro, punk, retro & a tequila girl, 23:00, £3, free b4 12am PLANET EARTH, CITRUS CLUB, 80s tunes with 22:30, £5, free b4 11pm SALSA CARIBE!, THE LOT, Salsa DJs on the special wooden dancefloor, 21:00, 01:30, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm

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THU 1 NOV MOYA, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD,

THE HAVEX & TILLY B, CRUZ, Launch party for new single w champagne reception, performance, cabaret, DJ, 20:00, £5 THESE EYES ARE CAMERAS, THE ARK, 19:30, £TBC OXJAM, NDAJE, THE BONGO CLUB, Jazz, funk & reggae, 21:30, 02:30, £6 JERRY BERGONZI QUARTET, THE JAZZ BAR, Jazz saxophonist, 20:30, £6(5)

THE FREAKY FAMILY, 100% ORGANIC HIP HOP LIVE SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, Groove 4-piece, 23:00, FRI 2 NOV BILLY LIAR, THE DIRTY WEE MIDDENS, THE HELLIES, WAR RISK 3, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, /Metal, THE GALLERY, CANCEL THE ASTRONAUTS, WHALE ENGINEERING, HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, Indie, 20:00, £4 NEW FOUND SOUND, ACTION GROUP, MEURSAULT, Q WITHOUT U, PO NA NA, Upcoming indie- bands, 19:00, 22:00, £5

HARD TO FIND, ROMEO, CITRUS CLUB, Reggae &

SHAM 69, BAKER’S DOZEN, NASTY NASTY, STUDIO 24,

dancehall, 22:30, £5, £3 b4 12am INDI-GO, THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie & alternative, 22:30, £2, £1 students

Punk oldies, 19:00, £10

EZIO, + SUPPORT TBC, THE ARK, Art-school Indie, 19:30,

FANTASYLANDS, PUBLIC DOMAIN, SHADES OF RHYTHM, LENNY DEE, MUCH MORE, ROYAL HIGHLAND CENTRE, Old skool, hardstyle, techno, trance, 22:00,

GET OPEN, RED6, THE BONGO CLUB, Reggae, ska, funk, KARNIVAL, JOHN SPACEY, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Dance, 23:00, £10 (£8)

LIQUID SOUL, MARK B & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Chirpy music, 22:30, £6, £3 b4 11pm

MUCH MORE, NASTY P & CUNNIE, MEDINA, Hip-hop & funk cuts, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm

PARLIAMENT, TONY SENGHORE, SCOTT ORR, DJ DAZE, EGO, Funky electro house, 22:30, £10 (£8) PARTY NIGHT, DJ PAPI & ALEX GATO, EL BARRIO, Salsa

MUTINY, MANCHINOCHRIST, SCAMP, MATTYCORE,

SKALLOWEEN, THE TOASTERS, BOMSKARE, FANDANGLE, THE EXCHANGE, Ska, 20:00, 02:00, (£8) £10 ABSOLUTE CORRUPT, KRONAHAARN, FIREBRAND SEPERROCK, STATUE OF MISERY, THE HIVE, Hardcore

THE BONGO CLUB, Hardtek, breakcore, hardcore, 23:00,

thrash-metal from Hawaii, 19:00, £5

ROLLER DISCO, MASH & JON PLEASED, LULU, Past & future electronic, 20:00, £4.99, free b4 11pm THE PIT, THE HIVE, & metal, 23:00, Free

SPEAK EASY, DJ SHEEP, DJ EH1, DJ BABES, GINO, BOB, EGO, Funk, soul, disco breaks, party jams, 22:30, £3 (£2)

WE ARE … ELECTRIC, DJ T, CABARET VOLTAIRE, House,

electro, tech-house with rotating guests in the back, 23:00, £2, free b4 12am/members BARAKA, Funk, soul, disco, dancehall & reggae, 20:00, night with free classes from 10pm, 23:00, Free 01:00, Free RETRIBUTION, STUDIO 24, Goth music for the old, 23:00, THU 29 NOV ALTER EGO, PO NA NA, DJ Diverse £5, £3 students indie & electro, 23:00, £5 (£3) SANCTUARY, STUDIO 24, Underage goth club, 18:00, BUMP, THE LIQUID ROOM, Chart, 22:30, £2 (£1) 21:00, £7 (£5) GOULAG BEAT, SILVIA SUBSTANCE, EGO, Live bands, SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY, ERIK D’VIKING & AS22:30, £4 (£3) TROBOY, THE JAZZ BAR, from Gecko 3, 23:00, £5, £3 b4 GRAFITTI, KIPP$ & MASTER CAIRD, MEDINA, Party 11.30pm tunes all night, 22:00, £3 (£2) SHAKE, JOHN HUTCHINSON, SHANGHAI (UNDERNEATH LE LIC IT, CITRUS CLUB, Student night, 23:00, £2, free b4 MONDE), Vocal house, party anthems, 23:00, £3 12am SLASHDOT, ROTATING THE HIVE, Techno & electro, d&b, NDAJE, THE BONGO CLUB, Afrobeat, ska, soul, salsa, breaks, indie, punk, new wave, 23:00, £5, free b4 12am celtic, jazz, 21:30, 02:30, £6 (£5)

SOPHISTIFUNK, JOHN HUTCHISON (TOKYOBLU), CITY,

House remixes, funky RnB & bootlegs, 23:00, £8 (£4) SUBSTANCE, JEROME HILL, HENRYS CELLAR, Techno, electro, 23:00, £8 (£7) TEASE AGE, CITRUS CLUB, All things, motown, alternative & soul, 22:30, £6, free b4 11pm VOLUME, RUSTIE, EGO, Dubstep & hiphop, 22:30, £5 (£3)

£TBC

Indie meets early nineties youth club disco, 21:00, £2, free b4 11pm

£3.50 (£2.50 b4 12am)

POLYPHONIC SOCIAL CLUB, JACEK ZAMOJSKI & GUESTS, PIVO CAFFE, Electric mash up dance grooves, 19:00, Free

RED STAR INSTITUTE, MEDALLA, CAVE SEDEM, THE CRYPIC DJS, RED, Electro & techno, 22:00, Free RIP IT UP!, DJ DIANA, LEE TAYLOR, WEE RED BAR, Indie,

60s, electro, glam, madchester, post-punk, 22:30, £4, £3 b4 12am SALSA DISCO, CUBA NORTE, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, 21:00, 01:00, Free 22:00, 01:00, Free DANNY TENNENT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, ISLA BLIGE & SICK NOTE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Fidget house, booty THE BLOND FLASH, LULU, Soul, funk, house & latin, 20:00, bass, indie, new wave, 23:00, Free £7, free b4 12am SIREN, THE BREAKNOTIST, THE HIVE, Electro, house, DAVE SHEDAN, OPAL LOUNGE, Vocal house, electro & breaks & techno, 23:00, Free RnB, 22:00, £6, free b4 11pm SOULED OUT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, FRAZER MC-

GARETH SOMERVILLE (ULTRAGROOVE) & JONNIE LYLEY (SCRATCH), ASSEMBLY BAR, House to hip hop,

SKUNKFUNK, D’BASS + DJ, THE JAZZ BAR, Glaswegian 6piece with dynamite arrangements, 23:00, £5/£3

THE COMPLETE STONE ROSES, THE LIQUID ROOM, Baggy tribute b19:00, £10

RAY LAMONTAGNE, THE PLAYHOUSE, Singer-songwriter, 19:00, £20

racket. That’s not a bad thing., 19:00, Free

SAT 3 NOV THE GALLERY, UNKNOWN HAGANA, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, Indie/, 21:30, £4

19:30, £6

ALBUM LAUNCH, DICK DANGEROUS & THE LOVE BASTARDS, THE GREASE MONKEYS, HENRY’S CELLAR THE ACID FASCISTS, THE FNORDS, TWO TEARS, MERID-

WHISTLEBINKIES, 4-6 SOUTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH

IAN BAR, Noisy, short & fast, 20:00, £4

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NEW FOUND SOUND, ROYS IRON DNA, KOBAI, CAPSTIN POLE, PO NA NA, Indie-dance rockers, 19:00, 22:00, £5

Whistlebinkies photo: Eilidh Baxter The Doghouse

tribute b19:30, £TBC

WHAT’S ON

BAD NAME, APOCALYPSE JONES, THE ARK, Bon Jovi CRAVE THE CAVES, RIESER, MIYAGI, ALFONZO & DJS, THE CAVES, Surfing fundraiser, 21:00, £8

MY MINDS WEAPON, BLUEPRINT TO A DOWNFALL, THE PARTY PROGRAM, THY CAME FOURTH, CLEARER THE SKY, THE HIVE, Emo/screamo metal, 19:00, £5 TRIO JAZZ, THE JAZZ BAR, variable line-up, 15:30, WORLD PREMIERE, THE JAZZ BAR, 5 excellent players play together for the first time, 20:30, £3/£2

THE COMPLETE STONE ROSES, THE LIQUID ROOM, Baggy tribute b19:00, £10

ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN, THE PLAYHOUSE, Gary Mullen does Freddie Mercury, 19:30, £14 (£17.50)

IDLEWILD, TWILIGHT SAD, THE QUEEN’S HALL, Roddy & the Grungey, 21:30, £4

THE BONGO CLUB, Diverse

NEATH LE MONDE), House, 22:00, £6 (£3)

selection of music, free internet & games, 16:00, £3, free THE DEPARTURE LOUNGE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Jazz to b4 11pm breakbeats, 21:00, 01:00, Free

FRICTION, DEREK MARTIN & STUART JOHNSTON,

LIQUID ROOM, Weekly dance club, 23:00, £4 (£2), £1

Centro card

KAYOS, OPIUM, metal & indie, 20:00, Free NEON/HELLRAISERS BALL, THE HIVE, Goth, indie, bleep, industrial, punk & eighties, 23:00, Free

PLAYGIRL MANSIONS, TRENDY WENDY, LULU, Chart pop & glam, 23:00, £4

SCOTTISH HOBO SOCIETY (LIVE),

THE BONGO CLUB,

Alternative music for justified sinners, 22:30, £3

SHAKE, JOHN HUTCHISON (TOKYOBLU), SHANGHAI (UNDERNEATH LE MONDE), 23:00, £3

SIENTELO!,

EL BARRIO, Latin America music mixed with

chart tunes, 23:00, Free

SOUNDPROOF OPEN DECKS, SOUNDPROOF DJS, BARAKA, Open decks night, 20:00, 01:00, Free

TASTE, FISHER & PRICE, MARCO SMITH, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Legendary gay-friendly club, 23:00, £6 (£5), £5 b4

11.30pm

TASTE FOREPLAY, MISS CHRIS, BARAKA, 20:00, Free TUE 27 NOV ANTICS, THE HIVE, emo, punk & metal, 23:00, Free

DARK PLANET OPEN MUSIC, PUBLIC, BARAKA, Come play your vinyl, CDs, iPod, mp3 player or laptop, 20:30, 01:00, Free FRUNT, DJ STUART JOHNSTON, THE LIQUID ROOM, House music all night long, 22:30, Free

SUN 4 NOV LANDSLIDE, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD,

Ceilidh, 20:00, 01:00, £10

BAR, Weekly spot for jazz vocalists, 20:30, £3/£2

BOOMBOX, MARCEL WOODS, EGO, Trance, 22:00,

EASY SUNDAY, THE JAZZ BAR, Groovy Lounge, Crooners

£10

CLUB, SCOTT ELLIOT, CRAIG GEE & GAV GRANT ON ROTATION, PIVO CAFFE, Classic club music from the

& Anything Goes, from Vegas & Go-Go DJs Sam José & Tall Paul, 23:30, ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN, THE PLAYHOUSE, Gary Mullen does his Freddie Mercury thang, 19:30, £14 (£17.50)

funk & RnB, 22:00, £5, £2.50 b4 11pm DE LUXE, HUDSON CLUB, Funky house with resident DJs, 23:00, £3, free b4 12am

DEPARTURE LOUNGE, THE BAGHDADDIES, DJ MUNGBEAN, THE CAVES, Balkan Beat Special, 22:00, £9 (£7)

EVOL,

THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie, hip hop, alternative

beats &, 22:30, £5

FAST, GAY AGAINST YOU, THE BONGO CLUB, Punk, funk, disco, electro, 23:00, £5

GET FUNK’D, DOUBLE D & ISLA, MEDINA, Hip hop to house, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm

HARK!, BEARSUIT, TEVIOT UNDERGROUND, Indie club,

21:00, £6

MISFITS,

THE HIVE, Indie, electro, punk, retro & a tequila

girl, 23:00, £3, free b4 12am

photo: Stephanie Stewart

0141 553 2400

THE SKINNY BRINGS YOU THE PICK OF THIS MONTH’S EVENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH MILLER GENUINE DRAFT WHISKY LIVE SECC, Fri 2 Nov – Sat 3 Nov

Whether it’s stylish essentials you’re after, or just a chance to dress like you’re in a Jane Fonda fitness vid, American Apparel have finally arrived in Scotland. As those of you familiar with their London stores, or the online shop, will know, they’re an ethical manufacturer who specialise in brightly coloured, well cut clothes – ordinary clothes, like t-shirts, sweaters, hoodies and y-fronts. Yes, y-fronts. American Apparel have nailed simple styles so well that y-fronts are once again entirely wearable for the bohoabout-town; their knickers are as retro-cool as knickers get, too.

American Apparel, Unit 3, Stock Exchange, Nelson Mandela Place, Glasgow http://store.americanapparel.co.uk

The best thing about Scotland is whisky (closely followed by the accumulated work of Ian Hamilton Finlay), and the best thing about conference type things is the chance to be geeky with fellow geeks. This month sees an excellent opportunity to combine these qualities at Whisky Live, for which various distillers, both independent and corporate, are coming together for debates, tastings, and a general hobnob. There are also games and beer; so if you like malt, alcohol and giant Jenga, there’s nowhere else to be. Whisky Live, SECC, Glasgow, £45 both days, £25 one day, £15 half day www.whiskylive.com/scotland/glasgow-2007

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

STUDIO 24, Indie, 19:00, £4

tutors: demos, Q&As & drummer chat, 14:00,

CULT, DJ NICKI & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Hip hop, disco,

MONO, 12 KING’S COURT, KING STREET, GLASGOW

Glasgow, from Mon 19 Nov

THINK FIRE, TO CATCH A THIEF, THE DAY I VANISHED,

dance, 22:30, £5

past 15 years, 17:00, Free

ATMOSPHERE: If art students took over a small town shopping centre and started using it to sell organic vegetarian produce, and generally kicking back in, and the small town was actually Glasgow, then you’d have Mono.

er-songwriter, 19:00, £12

FRI 30 NOV AMP BOX, RECORD PLAYERZ, BONASSEMBLY CEILIDH, KEN GOURLAY, ASSEMBLY ROOMS,

MAGIC MOMENT: Getting home after a few drinks with a clutch of hard-to-get cds and dvds in hand. Monorail, the in house record store, is both a blessing (it’s got great stock) and a curse (on the wallet)…

OPENER: “How about we get a bit monogamous tonight?” Sloan’s

photo: www.faction.co.uk

photo: Derek Chapman CLIENTELE: They regularly host some of Glasgow’s best alternative music nights here, so indie fans of all genres tend to frequent the place even during the day. But you get grannies too, and veggie food tourists.

AMERICAN APPAREL

TOM MCRAE, BRIAN WRIGHT, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Sing-

ME N DAN, LAMENS TERMS, THE MAYDAYS, THE ONE DAY SPEAKERS, THE ARK, Indie-punk, 20:00, £4 DRUMMERS DO, THE JAZZ BAR, sessions by local drum

JOUR BOI, JACKSON STARS, WEE RED BAR, Electronic

INSIDE: Mono has fermenting tanks along one wall and a long bar that only partially hides the cute as custard staff, and it’s lit during the day by a giant skylight. With rough-surfaced tables and plenty of stuff – magazines, board games, plants in pots - on all the surfaces, Mono makes what could be a bit of a hangar into a warm and relaxed space.

BAR, ’n’roll, 20:00, £TBC

Free

CURIOUS? SUNDAY JOINT,

INSIDE: Unlike many live music venues, the atmosphere isn’t entirely down to the band on the stage: ‘Binkies’ multiroom layout and low ceiling mean that there’s almost always a fun crowd in the central area, and room to find a seat if you look. At the weekend you’ll be hard pushed for deep and meaningful conversation, but rowdy fun is a given.

OPENER: “I just got off the train from Memphis – man I need a drink. What can I get you partner, if you’ll hear my story?” This makes no sense but would be a good opener, especially if you could pull it off totally, totally deadpan.

GAVIN MOORE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Singer-songwriter,

crew on home soil, 19:30, £16

YIN-YANG, HUGGY, CRAIG SMITH, SHANGHAI (UNDER-

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ATMOSPHERE: Most Edinburgh residents will have memories of a massive night that included a hefty stint in ‘Binkies. It has a kind of ghostly sense of occasion as a result.

THE LEG, LUGOSI’S GHOST, WEE RED BAR, A shambolic

dance, 22:00, £3, free b4 12am STILETTO, JEZ HILL, LULU, Electro-pop, & disco, 20:00, £5, free b4 10pm

disco & chart, 22:00, £5

MONO, GLASGOW

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MAGIC MOMENT: They put on more than a hundred bands a month, so there are usually plenty to choose from. With a low stage the opportunities for interaction with the crowd are plenty – kisses for pretty bassists (both sexes), heckles for singers who dance like a dying trout, and free drumsticks for crowd members, are all regular occurrences.

gan & jazz/funk grooves, 20:30, £3/£2

GLINCHEY & GUESTS, OPAL LOUNGE, Soul, disco &

BOOTY, DALE LUSH & FRIENDS, MEDINA, Soul, funk,

WHISTLEBINKIES, EDINBURGH

CLIENTELE: A total mixed bag of personality types – one of ‘Binkies’ strongest assets. Somehow all the tourists who know how to have a good time – as opposed to just standing around wondering where a place with ‘atmosphere’ is – end up in here, so expect tequila slamming Italians and not a bum-bag in sight.

HOOK’T UP ORGAN TRIO, THE JAZZ BAR, Hammond or-

SUN 25 NOV BACK TO BASICS, IAN ANDERSON & BISCUIT D, PIVO CAFFE, Retro dance, 90s & disco, 19:00,

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21:30, £4

house, 19:00, Free

JERK ALERT, MC BLONDEX, AWESOME WELLS, RED,

CHECK OUT OUT OUR READER RATINGS!

21:30, £4

Dance, indie, hip hop & breaks, 17:00, Free THE EGG, CHRIS & PAUL, WEE RED BAR, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 23:00, £5, £4 students/members

soul, 23:00, £5

HARD TO FIND, ROMEO, CITRUS CLUB, Reggae & dance-

THE GOOD GROOVE, BREADMARK & JOHNNY CASHBACK, PIVO CAFFE, Funk, afrobeat, latin breaks &

EDINBURGH LIVE

DUB2CLUB, MANGOMAD & DJ DEFAULT, PIVO CAFFE,

21:00, £5 (£4)

house, 19:00, Free

MOTHERFUNK, FRYER & GINO, OPAL LOUNGE, Original

VAPORS, BOB DISASTER, FLY T, BABES & MR. BISCUITS,

06:00, £tbc

THE GOOD GROOVE, BREADMARK & JOHNNY CASHBACK, PIVO CAFFE, Funk, afrobeat, latin breaks &

Indie, alt, Mashup & bootlegs, 21:00, Free

£3 (£2)

SECRET ARCADE, D&b, breakbeat, 21:00, 01:00, Free

CHAMBLES, DJ JEZ HILL, OPAL LOUNGE, Funk & chart,

TEVIOT UNION, Indie club, 21:00,

INDIE MIX, NICK A.K.A. & THE DALEK, PIVO CAFFE,

HEADS UP

EDINBURGH CLUBS

Glenmore Forest, Fri 2 Nov – Sun 18 Nov If you ever needed an excuse to get out into the woods, Between Two Worlds is a strange, and potentially magical, proposition: lit night-time walks through the beautiful Glenmore Forest with environmental art from Diane Maclean, lighting installations from Malcolm Innes and music from Highland composer Bob Pegg. There are few events that are suitable for families and stoners alike, but Between Two Worlds should be a beautiful adventure well worth the, ahem, trip.

SUNDAY SINGERS SESSION, MARIA SPEIGHT, THE JAZZ

SPECTRUM FESTIVAL, THE BIG HBROKEN RECORDS, UNDERLING, SHUTTER, THE GRAEME MEARNS BANNIE CHRISTIAN & MORE, THE QUEEN’S HALL, All-day music &

Between Two Worlds, Glenmore Forest Park, Cairngorms National Park, 5.30pm – 10.30pm, £12/£10.50 http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-6ysczk

music-related stuff extravaganza, 15:00, 23:00, £6 (£7)

MON 5 NOV TRAIN TO WALES, BANNERMAN’S UNDERWORLD, Pop-punk threesome, 21:30, £4

NINE BLACK ALPS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, 19:00, XFM ticket-winners

GOT A GIG?THEN TEXT

THE JAZZ BAR BIG BTHE JAZZ BAR, 20:00, £3/£2 THE LATE GREAT JAM SESSION, THE JAZZ BAR, players drop in to jam, always a surprise, 22:00,

TUE 6 NOV THE CHAP, + SUPPORT TBC, THE ARK, Indie, 19:30, £TBC

THE EIGHTIES B-LINE MATCHBOX DISASTER, THE HIVE, Amped-up Psychobilly, 19:00, £9

GUITAR NIGHT, BEN MACDONALD, THE JAZZ BAR,

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I forgot our anniversary this year and my girlfriend was really upset. I was totally apologetic, and cooked her a really nice meal the next night. But she says it’s because I smoke too much weed that I forgot, and wants me to stop. I’m so not the type to insist on ‘my way or the highway’, but I’ve been smoking for years and it’s a big part of my life. I smoked when we got together so she can’t have had any illusions. I feel guilty, though, because I want things to be right and easy between us. What should I do, or what can I say to her to explain? Ritchie, Edinburgh

tives to keep you ‘loyal’. In the end, you leave a much clearer picture of yourself than you’d think possible, and certainly a picture clear enough for advertisers to know whether you’re their target segment or not. When you log on you think you’re getting a service from them, but in fact you’re giving them the parameters they need to classify you and sell you to whoever thinks they can get money out of you.” Needless to say, David has not signed up to the likes of Facebook.

Dear Ritchie, Tough one. You’re clear that you don’t want to change, but could it be that the anniversary incident is just one among many? If your girlfriend hasn’t complained about your smoking before, I wonder if she’s just been resenting it quietly.

Of course, whether it’s the CIA or marketers you’re worried about, many cynics would advise that if you don’t want them to know your

“DOES IT REALLY MATTER IF THE CIA KNOWS I LIKE HARDCORE PUNK?”

So, how much do you actually smoke? Do you smoke weed every day? Do you need a joint to relax in the evening, or do you need one first thing in the morning so you can function? Does it affect your social life, eat up your money, kill your attention span? Is it more important than other activities? If any of this is the case, I can see why she’s bothered. Is your usage causing you to miss out on anything – bearing in mind that that could include your relationship? If you drank as much or as often as you smoke, would it be a problem then?

EMAIL NINE@SKINNYMAG.CO.UK WITH YOUR PROBLEMS, DILEMMAS, CONFESSIONS AND COMMENTS. ALL CORRESPONDANCE WILL BE TREATED WITH THE UTMOST CONFI-

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Of course, it’s up to you; you made a presumably informed choice about this, which predates your relationship, and I wouldn’t know whether your habit has increased or whether she was just willing to overlook it back in the beginning. And it’s easy to feel attacked if someone raises concerns about something that you’re committed to. But you’re committed to your relationship, too, so don’t avoid the issue – weigh up the pros and cons, and have a frank discussion with her about what works and doesn’t work for both of you. If you’re absolutely filled with dread at the prospect of quitting, that sounds like dependence, which cannot be good. But there’s always the happy medium of cutting down and seeing how it goes. Good luck with whatever you decide to do. Nine

details, just don’t input them. If you’ve already been sucked into the Facebook phenomenon, though, it’s not so easy to escape: unwanted accounts are not permanently deleted, just ‘deactivated’, and users who have demanded permanent deletion have reported having to first remove all the content in their profiles, followed by a frustrating exchange of e-mails with customer support reps.

FACEBOOK IS GREAT FOR PERVING ON EXES OR SHARING YOUR LOVE OF BEVERLY HILLS COP II WITH STRANGERS. BUT, AS SUSPICIONS ARE VOICED ABOUT THE SECURITY STANDARDS OPERATED BY THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE, NINE WONDERS WHETHER IT’S A QUESTION OF ACEBOOK OR DISGRACEBOOK

DENTIALITY.

Chances are you’ve got a Facebook account. Chances are you’ve spent long periods of time feeding names into Facebook’s search engine (“Okay, who else have I ever met in my entire life?”). Chances are your Facebook page incor porates vampires, pirates, zombies, werewolves, an overcrowded aquarium, a fortune cookie, and a lolcat.

illustration: Paul Ryding, www.paulryding.com

Facebook.com is a curious feature of our modern world. Just over a year ago, the site was opened up to non-students, and now all of a sudden it’s bigger than MySpace. It’s more aesthetically pleasing, it’s easier to navigate, it keeps us in touch with friends - but most importantly it’s a massive timewaster. Was the internet not self-indulgent enough already?

THE SKINNY NOVEMBER 07

Still, credit where credit’s due: it’s pretty effective in reuniting us with people we used to know. Never mind, of course, that your best friend from when you were thirteen performs a drive-by friending (adding you as a friend, but avoiding any direct communication); that the homophobic little shit you used to drink with as a teenager has grown up to be a BNP sympathiser; or that your first girlfriend fills in the “How do you know each other?” field with a bland explanation that you went to college together. Not that I’m bitter, you understand. It’s just that the social networking phenomenon has the potential to make us feel awkward and insecure in new and fascinating ways. Then there’s the CIA thing. Users of Facebook have the opportunity to input an enormous amount of information about themselves, including their workplace, political leanings, religious affiliations, and even a timeline of how they got to know each of their friends. The

prospect of Facebook teaming up with the CIA to record this information makes for a juicy conspiracy theory, even though (or especially because?) Facebook has denied CIA links. On the other hand, as a friend reasons, “Does it really matter if the CIA knows I like hardcore punk?”

$15 BILLION The value put on Facebook by Microsoft, who announced on 24 October that they are spending $240m for a (small) stake in the social networking site.

$20 BILLION December 2005 value of AOL, in line with a $1 billion for 5 per cent investment from Google. ‘AOL’ incorporates all their web portals and dial-up access business, advertising.com, AIM & ICQ, Winamp, Mapquest, Netscape, and Moviefone. Facebook is just, you know, Facebook.

Perhaps a more realistic concern would be data-mining. David, who took part in a recent commercial data-mining conference, explains the concept with the example of a French company that has two main activities: providing on-line advertising, and running a free gaming portal. Users of the portal sign up with their full name, address, date of birth, and e-mail address. Pretty basic stuff, so how do they make their money? “They track what you play. How often. If you win or not. How much. If you send them comments/complaints/demands of any sort, through e-mail or post, that is logged and taken into account. If you start playing less they calculate the possibility of losing you and turn up in your inbox with new incen-

That’s not all – there are other aspects of Facebook which users may not be thrilled to learn about. A student research project published in December 2005 revealed that passwords on Facebook were not encrypted, meaning that not only would it be easy for a third party to hack user accounts, but if a user used the same password on other websites, those too would be easy to get into. Still, hackers aren’t the only problem - numerous internal glitches have also been documented. In July this year, a bug exposed users’ message inboxes; in late October, it was discovered that information entered in the ‘Notes’ feature could be visible to other users even when designated private. And in September, a Facebook insider alleged that Facebook had no privacy controls whatsoever. Its security policy does not even go as far as MySpace’s in ensuring that only specific employees may access sensitive information - including private messages between users. Beyond this, there’s a growing concern about what users publish on Facebook, with increasing numbers of employers checking out job candidates on the site, and numerous reports of university students being disciplined for bad behaviour – from underage drinking to homophobic remarks. Users don’t always have the autonomy to cover their own tracks – if someone posts an undesirable message on your wall or tags an incriminating photo of you, you need to login and remove it, by which time any number of people may already have seen it. There is no opt-out process for these features – they require constant monitoring. Similarly, many users assume that by deleting something in their mini-feed – for example, a record of something they had typed into their profile and then thought better of – it will automatically vanish from their friends’ news feeds too. It won’t. Again, some of these things are obvious to some folks – but not so much to others. In conclusion, if you choose to make your Facebook profile visible to everybody, feel free to go around throwing sheep at your friends, hatching ferrets out of eggs, and rating how hot everyone is. Just remove ‘fucking’ from your interests and take down that picture of yourself snorting coke off the toilet seat before your mum or your boss sees it.

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GARETH SOMERVILLE (ULTRAGROOVE) & JONNIE LYLEY (SCRATCH), ASSEMBLY BAR, House to hip hop,

RIP IT UP!, DJ DIANA, LEE TAYLOR, WEE RED BAR, Indie,

60s, electro, glam, madchester, post-punk, 22:30, £4, 21:00, 01:00, Free DANNY TENNENT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, ISLA BLIGE £3 b4 12am SALSA DISCO, CUBA NORTE, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, & THE BLOND FLASH, LULU, Soul, funk, house & latin, 22:00, 01:00, Free 20:00, £7, free b4 12am SICK NOTE, FOXFACE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Fidget house, DAVE SHEDAN, OPAL LOUNGE, Vocal house, electro & booty bass, indie, new wave, 23:00, Free RnB, 22:00, £6, free b4 11pm SUN 11 NOV ALL BACK TO MINE, OPAL LOUNGE, mix SIREN, SIREN & RE:TOX, THE HIVE, Electro, house, breaks & techno, 23:00, Free of, favourites, 22:00, £3, free b4 11pm

BACK TO BASICS, IAN ANDERSON & BISCUIT D, PIVO CAFFE, Retro dance, 90s & disco, 19:00, Free

BOOTY, DALE LUSH & FRIENDS, MEDINA, Soul, funk, disco & chart, 22:00, £5

SOULED OUT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, FRAZER MCGLINCHEY & GUESTS, OPAL LOUNGE, Soul, disco &

Centro card

KAYOS, OPIUM, metal & indie, 20:00, Free NEON/HELLRAISERS BALL, THE HIVE, Goth, indie, bleep, industrial, punk & eighties, 23:00, Free

PLAYGIRL MANSIONS, TRENDY WENDY, LULU, Chart pop & glam, 23:00, £4

SCOTTISH HOBO SOCIETY (LIVE), VAMPIRE WEEKEND, EPIC 26, THE BONGO CLUB, Alternative music for justified sinners, 22:30, £3

SHAKE, JOHN HUTCHISON (TOKYOBLU), SHANGHAI (UNDERNEATH LE MONDE), 23:00, £3 EL BARRIO, Latin America music mixed with chart tunes, 23:00, Free

SOUNDPROOF OPEN DECKS, SOUNDPROOF DJS, BARAKA, Open decks night, 20:00, 01:00, Free

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DANNY TENNENT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, ISLA BLIGE & THE BLOND FLASH, LULU, Soul, funk, house & latin, 20:00, £7, free b4 12am

DAVE SHEDAN, OPAL LOUNGE, Vocal house, electro & RnB, 22:00, £6, free b4 11pm

SUN 18 NOV ALL BACK TO MINE, OPAL LOUNGE, mix of, favourites, 22:00, £3, free b4 11pm

BACK TO BASICS, IAN ANDERSON & BISCUIT D, PIVO CAFFE, Retro dance, 90s & disco, 19:00, Free

BOOTY, DALE LUSH & FRIENDS, MEDINA, Soul, funk,

disco & chart, 22:00, £5 CURIOUS? SUNDAY JOINT, THE BONGO CLUB, Diverse dance, 22:00, £3, free b4 12am STILETTO, JEZ HILL, LULU, Electro-pop, & disco, 20:00, £5, selection of music, free internet & games, 16:00, £3, free b4 11pm free b4 10pm

CURIOUS? SUNDAY JOINT, THE BONGO CLUB, Diverse YIN-YANG, HUGGY, CRAIG SMITH, SHANGHAI (UNDERselection of music, free internet & games, 16:00, £3, free NEATH LE MONDE), House, 22:00, £6 (£3) b4 11pm THE DEPARTURE LOUNGE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Jazz to FRICTION, DEREK MARTIN & STUART JOHNSTON, breakbeats, 21:00, 01:00, Free LIQUID ROOM, Weekly dance club, 23:00, £4 (£2), £1

TASTE, FISHER & PRICE, MARCO SMITH, CABARET VOL-

FEATURES

CULT, DJ NICKI & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Hip hop, disco,

funk & RnB, 22:00, £5, £2.50 b4 11pm DE LUXE, HUDSON CLUB, Funky house with resident DJs, KONTROL, LE CHIC & KEVIN GORMAN, JD PYZ, STUDIO TASTE FOREPLAY, MISS CHRIS, BARAKA, 20:00, Free 23:00, £3, free b4 12am TUE 13 NOV ANTICS, THE HIVE, emo, punk & metal, EVOL, THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats 24, Techno & electro, 23:00, £10, £8 b4 12am 23:00, Free MISFITS, THE HIVE, Indie, electro, punk, retro & a tequila &, 22:30, £5 DARK PLANET OPEN MUSIC, PUBLIC, BARAKA, Come girl, 23:00, £3, free b4 12am GET FUNK’D, DOUBLE D & ISLA, MEDINA, Hip hop to NOIZTEEZ, REDRUM, DANCE JUNKIE, HARRIS, BERLIN, play your vinyl, CDs, iPod, mp3 player or laptop, 20:30, house, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm 01:00, Free Techno, d&b, breaks, 22:00, £4, free b4 11.30pm JAMA, YANN, GRAEME SPEIRS, BERLIN, Soulful house, NOT SO DIRTY, KRIS LINDSAY, RED, Electro, tech-house, THE DIAMOND DICE, MR. JINX, MASSA, Hip hop, RnB & funky house, 21:00, £5 grime, 22:00, £5 22:00, £3 FRUNT, DJ STUART JOHNSTON, THE LIQUID ROOM, House MISFITS, THE HIVE, Indie, electro, punk, retro & a tequila NUKLEAR PUPPY, EGO, Hard dance, 22:30, £tbc girl, 23:00, £3, free b4 12am PLANET EARTH, CITRUS CLUB, 80s tunes with 22:30, £5, music all night long, 22:30, Free INDIE MIX, NICK A.K.A. & THE DALEK, PIVO CAFFE, Indie, PLANET EARTH, CITRUS CLUB, 80s tunes with 22:30, £5, free b4 11pm free b4 11pm SALSA CARIBE!, THE LOT, Salsa DJs on the special wood- alt, Mashup & bootlegs, 21:00, Free SALSA CARIBE!, THE LOT, Salsa DJs on the special MOTHERFUNK, FRYER & GINO, OPAL LOUNGE, Original en danceﬂoor, 21:00, 01:30, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm wooden danceﬂoor, 21:00, 01:30, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 22:00, Free SOLESCIENCE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, House, disco, 23:00, TROUBLE PRESENTS…, BEN WESTBEECH, THE JAZZ BAR, £5 SPITFIRES SOCIAL CLUB, RED, Indie social club, 21:00, Jazz, house, broken beat, 23:30, £10 Free UNKNOWN PLEASURES, TEVIOT UNION, Indie club, 21:00, £3 (£2) SPLIT, EDINBURGH LOCALS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Blend of UNKNOWN PLEASURES, TEVIOT UNION, Indie club, 21:00, £3 (£2) TROUBLE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Big gay disco to hip hop & house, techno, d&b, breakbeat, healthy mid-week rave, XPLICIT, ANDY C, THE BONGO CLUB, D&b, 22:00, £12 23:00, Free broken beats, 17:00, 01:00, Free TROUBLE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Big gay disco to hip hop & DANNY TENNENT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, ISLA BLIGE SYNTHETIC LOVE, DAVA & HOBBES, LULU, set, 20:00, broken beats, 17:00, 01:00, Free £4, free b4 11pm & THE BLOND FLASH, LULU, Soul, funk, house & latin, VIBE, JAMES LONGWARTH, EGO, Weekly gay club play- DANNY TENNENT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, ISLA BLIGE 20:00, £7, free b4 12am & THE BLOND FLASH, LULU, Soul, funk, house & latin, ing chart, 23:00, £4 JEZ HILL, OPAL LOUNGE, Upfront & classic tunes, 22:00, £6, free b4 12am ZOOT SWING DANCE CLASS, SWINGERS, THE BONGO 20:00, £7, free b4 12am JEZ HILL, OPAL LOUNGE, Upfront & classic tunes, 22:00, SAT 10 NOV 2HOT, RITCHIE RUFTONE, DJ DIZZLE & CLUB, Swing drop in classes, 19:00, 20:00, n/a £6, free b4 12am DJ STEW-EASY, EGO, RnB, hip hop & dance - Under 18s WED 14 NOV BASS INVASION, PACMAN, JOY, THE FIVE ACES, THE VOODOO ROOMS, 60s RnB, 22:00, ONLY, 18:00, 21:00, £5 SECRET ARCADE, D&b, breakbeat, 21:00, 01:00, Free 02:00, Free ADVANCE, CRAIG RAMSAY, DAMON MELVIN, MASSA, CHAMBLES, DJ JEZ HILL, OPAL LOUNGE, Funk & chart, SAT 17 NOV 2HOT, RITCHIE RUFTONE, DJ DIZZLE & 21:00, £5 (£4) Classic house, 23:00, £6, £5 b4 12am DJ STEW-EASY, EGO, RnB, hip hop & dance - Under 18s DISCO KITTEN, KRYSTIE, JASON CORTEZ, BERLIN, Boot- THE GOOD GROOVE, BREADMARK & JOHNNY ONLY, 18:00, 21:00, £5 legs, dance, house anthems, hip hop, 22:00, £8, £6 b4 CASHBACK, PIVO CAFFE, Funk, afrobeat, latin breaks & BASICS, HENRYS CELLAR, 50s & 60s RnB, 23:00, £tbc 11.30pm house, 19:00, Free DUB2CLUB, MANGOMAD & DJ DEFAULT, PIVO CAFFE, DUB2CLUB, MANGOMAD & DJ DEFAULT, PIVO CAFFE, HARD TO FIND, ROMEO, CITRUS CLUB, Reggae & danceDance, indie, hip hop & breaks, 17:00, Free Dance, indie, hip hop & breaks, 17:00, Free hall, 22:30, £5, £3 b4 12am THE EGG, CHRIS & PAUL, WEE RED BAR, Indie, garage, ECCF FUNDRAISER, VARIOUS CLUB CABARET VOLTAIRE, INDI-GO, THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie & alternative, 22:30, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running insti£2, £1 students House, techno, breaks, d&b, 22:00, £10 tution, 23:00, £5, £4 students/members JERK ALERT, MC BLONDEX, AWESOME WELLS, RED, THE EGG, CHRIS & PAUL, WEE RED BAR, Indie, garage, GIVE IT SOME, RED6, THE BONGO CLUB, Reggae, dub, Indie meets early nineties youth club disco, 21:00, £2, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running instifunk, ska, hip hop, 23:00, £6, £4 b4 12am free b4 11pm tution, 23:00, £5, £4 students/members LIQUID SOUL, MARK B & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Chirpy ROLLER DISCO, MASH & JON PLEASED, LULU, Past & FEVER, FISHER & PRICE, MARTIN VALENTINE, EGO, music, 22:30, £6, £3 b4 11pm future electronic, 20:00, £4.99, free b4 11pm House, dance, 22:30, £10 (£8) MUCH MORE, NASTY P & CUNNIE, MEDINA, Hip-hop & THE PIT, THE HIVE, & metal, 23:00, Free LIQUID SOUL, MARK B & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Chirpy funk cuts, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm SPEAK EASY, DJ SHEEP, DJ EH1, DJ BABES, GINO, BOB, music, 22:30, £6, £3 b4 11pm EGO, Funk, soul, disco breaks, party jams, 22:30, £3 (£2) PARTY NIGHT, DJ PAPI & ALEX GATO, EL BARRIO, Salsa MESSENGER, MIGHTY TABOT SOUND SYSTEM, THE night with free classes from 10pm, 23:00, Free TOXIK, DJ NU-CLEAR, OPIUM, New & old metal & hard, BONGO CLUB, Dub, reggae, roots, 23:00, £10 RETRIBUTION, STUDIO 24, Goth music for the old, 23:00, 20:00, Free MUCH MORE, NASTY P & CUNNIE, MEDINA, Hip-hop & WE ARE … ELECTRIC, GARY MAC & GUESTS, CABARET £5, £3 students funk cuts, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm SANCTUARY, STUDIO 24, Underage goth club, 18:00, PARTY NIGHT, DJ PAPI & ALEX GATO, EL BARRIO, Salsa VOLTAIRE, House, electro, tech-house with rotating guests 21:00, £7 (£5) in the back, 23:00, £2, free b4 12am/members night with free classes from 10pm, 23:00, Free SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY, ERIK D’VIKING & ASRETRIBUTION, STUDIO 24, Goth music for the old, 23:00, BARAKA, Funk, soul, disco, dancehall & reggae, 20:00, TROBOY, THE JAZZ BAR, from Underling, 23:00, £5, £3 b4 01:00, Free £5, £3 students 11.30pm THU 15 NOV ALTER EGO, PO NA NA, DJ Diverse with SANCTUARY, STUDIO 24, Underage goth club, 18:00, SHAKE, JOHN HUTCHINSON, SHANGHAI (UNDERNEATH indie, n roll & electro, 23:00, £5 (£3) 21:00, £7 (£5) LE MONDE), Vocal house, party anthems, 23:00, £3 BUMP, THE LIQUID ROOM, Chart, 22:30, £2 (£1) SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY, ERIK D’VIKING & ASSLASHDOT, ROTATING THE HIVE, Techno & electro, d&b, ELECTRIC FREQ, EGO, Electro, breaks, house, d&b, TROBOY, THE JAZZ BAR, from Azazi Space Funk Explosion, breaks, indie, punk, new wave, 23:00, £5, free b4 12am 22:30, £4 23:00, £5, £3 b4 11.30pm SOPHISTIFUNK, JOHN HUTCHISON (TOKYOBLU), CITY, SHAKE, JOHN HUTCHINSON, SHANGHAI (UNDERNEATH LE GRAFITTI, KIPP$ & MASTER CAIRD, MEDINA, Party tunes House remixes, funky RnB & bootlegs, 23:00, £8 (£4) all night, 22:00, £3 (£2) MONDE), Vocal house, party anthems, 23:00, £3 TEASE AGE, CITRUS CLUB, All things, motown, alternative SLASHDOT, ROTATING THE HIVE, Techno & electro, d&b, GUERILLA RADIO, MOONBOTICA, THE BONGO CLUB, & soul, 22:30, £6, free b4 11pm Minimal techno, 23:00, £4 (£3) breaks, indie, punk, new wave, 23:00, £5, free b4 12am ULTRAGROOVE, CLAUDE VONSTROKE, CABARET VOLLIC IT, CITRUS CLUB, Student night, 23:00, £2, free b4 SOPHISTIFUNK, JOHN HUTCHISON (TOKYOBLU), CITY, TAIRE, House, 23:00, £10 12am House remixes, funky RnB & bootlegs, 23:00, £8 (£4) VEGAS, EGO, Rat-pack, lounge, swing, retro, vintage, POLYPHONIC SOCIAL CLUB, JACEK ZAMOJSKI & SUITE 69, LES BOF!, HENRYS CELLAR, French garage, 22:30, £10 GUESTS, PIVO CAFFE, Electric mash up dance grooves, 23:00, £5 (£4) GARETH SOMERVILLE (ULTRAGROOVE) & JONNIE TEASE AGE, CITRUS CLUB, All things, motown, alternative 19:00, Free LYLEY (SCRATCH), ASSEMBLY BAR, House to hip hop, RED STAR INSTITUTE, AESTHETICS, DAVE LOWE, PAC& soul, 22:30, £6, free b4 11pm 21:00, 01:00, Free MAN, JFM, HAY-HAY, RED, D&b, 22:00, Free house, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm

11.30pm

SIENTELO!,

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TAIRE, Legendary gay-friendly club, 23:00, £6 (£5), £5 b4

LISTINGS

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GET FUNK’D, DOUBLE D & ISLA, MEDINA, Hip hop to

FRICTION, DEREK MARTIN & STUART JOHNSTON,

LIQUID ROOM, Weekly dance club, 23:00, £4 (£2), £1

Centro card

FRI 16 NOV ABSOLUTE, RANDY KATANA, SIMON

KAYOS, OPIUM, metal & indie, 20:00, Free NEON/HELLRAISERS BALL, THE HIVE, Goth, indie, bleep,

11.30pm

PLAYGIRL MANSIONS, TRENDY WENDY, LULU, Chart

CABARET VOLTAIRE, Electro, 23:00, £10

SCOTTISH HOBO SOCIETY (LIVE), NIGHT NOISE TEAM, COME ON GANG, THE BONGO CLUB, Alternative

PATTERSON, STUDIO 24, Hard dance, 22:30, £10, £8 b4

industrial, punk & eighties, 23:00, Free

ACCESS VS. WE ARE ELECTRIC, IVAN SMAGGHE,

pop & glam, 23:00, £4

BACK TO THE 1990S, BABES, JAMES LONGWORTH, HARRY AINSWORTH, EGO, Children in Need Fundraiser

music for justified sinners, 22:30, £3

- 90s tunes, 22:30, £5 (£3)

SHAKE, JOHN HUTCHISON (TOKYOBLU), SHANGHAI

house & breaks, 22:30, £tbc

SIENTELO!,

BEATROOT, RYAN TURNER, RICKY PALYS, EGO, Jackin BLACK TAPE, HENRYS CELLAR, 23:00, £5 (£4) CLIMAX, DAN MOORE, RED, High-teck funk, techno,

(UNDERNEATH LE MONDE), 23:00, £3 EL BARRIO, Latin America music mixed with chart tunes, 23:00, Free

SOUNDPROOF OPEN DECKS, SOUNDPROOF DJS,

electro, 22:00, Free

BARAKA, Open decks night, 20:00, 01:00, Free

15 years, 17:00, Free

11.30pm

CLUB, SCOTT ELLIOT, CRAIG GEE & GAV GRANT ON TASTE, FISHER & PRICE, MISS CHRIS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, ROTATION, PIVO CAFFE, Classic club music from the past Legendary gay-friendly club, 23:00, £6 (£5), £5 b4 TASTE FOREPLAY, MISS CHRIS, BARAKA, 20:00, Free

NOVEMBER 07 THE SKINNY

DJ TOAST & MASH, THE BUNKER BAR, 21:00, 03:00, Free BARRY, ERIC & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, All things , 22:30,

hip hop, funk, RnB & soul, 21:00, Free

25-NOV,

FRIDAY STREET, BLACKFRIARS, 60s soul, RnB, 22:00, £5 HOME OF THE GROOVES, MARK ROBB, MAGGIE MAYS,

03:00, £6 (£5), free b4 11pm with PIYP

COLD NIGHT SONG,

THE GOAT, Guests &

DJs play acoustic gems, 20:00, Free

DISCO BADGER, DOMINIC MARTIN, KASH & MAX, BAMBOO, Classic house music all night long with other

FREAKMENOOVERS, FREAKMENOOVERS DJS, BLANKET, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, 23:00, £6 (£4)

Jazz, funk, soul, 23:00, £5

HORRORSHOW, CRAIG MCGEE, FIREWATER, Indie,

rock, punk, electro, soul, britpop, 21:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm NOJ, POLAR BAR (ABC), No Music Policy, 23:00, £6 (£4), IT SURE BEATS WAITIN’, JUMBLESALE SOUNDS, THE FLYING DUCK, Bass, percussion & scratching, 21:00, Free free b4 11.30pm with matric. OLD SCHOOL, GORDIE & JACK, THE BUFF CLUB, Old b4 11pm school tunes, 22:30, £6 JUNK, MARKY MARK, THE BUFF CLUB, Jazz & funk feaOOFT PRECLUB, ALI & GRAEME (SKYROCKET), TERMIturing live percussion by Duffy, 23:00, £3, free with matric NAL BAR, Electronic/dub, 21:00, Free OPTIMO, JD TWITCH & JG WILKES, THE SUB CLUB, Maxi- PRESSURE, LAURENT GARNIER, SLAM, TOM MIDDLEmum eclectic, 23:00, £6 (£5) TON, NATHAN FAKE, ECHOSPACE, BILLY NASTY, ROCK ON THE SABBATH, CIARAN O’TOOLE & KIERAN PERCY X, THE ARCHES, Techno 9th birthday, 22:30, £20 ELLIOT, CATWALK, Rock, 19:00, Free RED & GOLD ROOM, ARTA, Soul musak, 22:00, £7, free b4 11pm SOUL SUNDAYS, PAUL CRAWFORD, FIREWATER, Indie, ROUTE 666, NICOLA WALKER, CATWALK, Rock, 19:00, punk & rock, 16:00, Free Free SPANK, THE CATHOUSE, Rock, punk & dance, 23:00, £4 SOUND MUSEUM, DJ HUSHPUPPY (ART SCHOOL) & (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP CHRIS GEDDES (BELLE & SEBASTIAN), BREL, Retro soul, 28-NOV, AFTER HOURS, GERRY LYONS, THE BUFF 21:00, Free CLUB, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00, £3 DELIVERANCE, DJ DEC & COLIN, THE CATHOUSE, Metal, SPARKIES 45S, MARK ROBB, CAFÉ RIO, Jazz, funk & soul, 20:00, Free emo & rock, 23:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP boogie next door, 22:00, £5 (£3), free b4 10.30pm/ 12.30pm with matric

JOINTS & JAMS,

CUBE, The Longest running RnB night in Glasgow, 23:00, £3 (£2) MJAM SALSA, CHRIS TRAYNOR, LIPTONS, Salsa classes from 8pm, free club from 10.15pm, 20:00, Free NEW FLESH, FURY MURRY’S, Rock, metal, punk, rap, industrial & alternative music, 22:00, £4, £2 from 10pm11pm, £1 with flyer/after 11pm POP ROCK-IT, DAVE MULHOLLCATWALK, Mixed Bag, 19:00, Free

SQUARE GO!, NICKQ, FREAK SCENE DJS, MAGGIE MAYS, Live bands & club, 20:00, £3

TONGUE IN CHEEK,

BAMBOO, Lounge, RnB & indie, 22:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with matric MARTIN BATE (BEAT 106), THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage rock & indie, 21:00, Free

29-NOV, 45 KICKS, ALEX & JOHN, THE BUFF CLUB,

New York & underground school inspired beats, 23:00, £3 BABAZA, BELO, Hip hop with the funk, 22:00, £6, free b4 11pm CHILDREN OF THE 80S, CLASSIC GRDJs & live performances, 80s tunes, 23:00, £5 (£3) CHIX ON DEX, CHINAWHITE, Rock, funkpunk & house all mixed by lovely ladies, 22:00, £4, free b4 11pm

CIGARETTES & F**K ALL, CRAIG MCGEE, THE BUTTERFLY & THE PIG, Indie & rock ‘n’ roll, 21:00, Free

FREAKMOVES, FREAKMENOOVERS DJS, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, Record Play-

erz in the bar, 23:00, £4 (£3)

FREAKSCENE, JOHN, POLAR BAR (ABC), Indie classics, 23:00, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with matric.

THE FUNKY PRECEDENT, D_FADE, DUNCAN HARVEY & BOOM MONK BEN, SAINT JUDE’S, Hip hop, funk, soul & motown, 20:00, Free

HOW’S YOUR PARTY?..., CHROMEO, MAN LIKE ME, THE SUB CLUB, Hip hop, 21:00, £5

MIX GENERATOR, DJ FRAMIE, CATWALK, Classic rock, maetal & alternative, 19:00, Free ON DEMDJ EUAN, THE SHED, Requests by text message at this interactive club night, 22:30, £3

PLASTIC FUNK, MARK ROBB, TANIA & FRIENDS, BAMBOO, Funk, soul & rock n roll, 22:30, £4 (£3), free b4

11pm/12.30am with matric

RADIOMAGNETIC, RADIOMAGNETIC DJS, GAZELLE, Funk, soul & latin grooves, 20:00, Free

RECORD PLAYERZ, HI-FI SEAN & HUSHPUPPY, THE VIC BAR, Disco electro, 23:00, £4 (£3)

RUBBERMENSCH,

ABC2, A night for indie lovers, 23:00, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with matric. SKINT, DJ BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, Metal, hip hop & rock, 23:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP

THE THURSDAY CLUB, GERRY LYONS & BRIAN, THE

GARAGE, Chart anthems, 23:00, £5 (£3), free b4 12am

with PIYP

UP THE RACKET, DJ TOAST, FIREWATER, Indie, soul, britpop, rock, punk, 16:00, £4 (£3), free b4 10.30pm ZERO THURSDAYS, DJ NORMSKI, BOHO, Funk, electro & house, 21:30, £3 CJ, THE BUNKER BAR, Grunge & new rock, 21:00, Free

30-NOV, ABC FRIDAYS, EUAN NEILSON, ABC1,

Genre mash-up, 23:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric. BALLBREAKER, BARRY & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, Rock & metal, 22:30, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am with PIYP BOOGIE DOWN, STEWART REID, BLUU, Jazz, disco & house sounds, 22:00, £5, free b4 11pm COMPUTELOVE, THE MIXING ROOMS, Electronic sounds, 20:00, Free ELECTROBALL, KARBON, 80’s, nu-wave, rock & punk, 22:30, £tbc FLIRTINI FRIDAYS, JIM DA BEST, BOHO, Party tunes & floor fillers, 21:30, £6 FLUID, LISA LITTLEWOOD, MAS, Funky house, 23:00, £5 FREAKMENOOVERS, RUST BAR, Early doors serving of

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STEREODOG, MR. LIVEWIRE & GARY CURLEY, CHINAWHITE, House, 22:00, £8 (£5)

GROOVE ARMADA AFTER PARTY, GROOVE ARMADA, CITY, House, beats, 22:30, £14 MISFITS, THE HIVE, Indie, electro, punk, retro & a tequila

TASTE, FISHER & PRICE, MISS CHRIS, CABARET VOLTAIRE,

SAT 3 NOV 2HOT, RITCHIE RUFTONE, DJ DIZZLE &

ZOOT SWING DANCE CLASS, SWINGERS, THE BONGO

Legendary gay-friendly club, 23:00, £6 (£5), £5 b4 11.30pm girl, 23:00, £3, free b4 12am TASTE FOREPLAY, MISS CHRIS, BARAKA, 20:00, Free PLANET EARTH, CITRUS CLUB, 80s tunes with 22:30, £5, TUE 6 NOV ANTICS, THE HIVE, emo, punk & metal, free b4 11pm 23:00, Free SALSA CARIBE!, THE LOT, Salsa DJs on the special wood- DARK PLANET OPEN MUSIC, PUBLIC, BARAKA, Come en dancefloor, 21:00, 01:30, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm play your vinyl, CDs, iPod, mp3 player or laptop, 20:30, SKALLOWEEN, THE TOASTERS, BOMBSKARE, FANDAN- 01:00, Free THE DIAMOND DICE, MR. JINX, MASSA, Hip hop, RnB & GLE, THE EXCHANGE, Ska, 20:00, 02:00, £10 (£8) grime, 22:00, £5 TOKYO BLU HALLOWEEN PARTY, EGO, Full live house FRUNT, DJ STUART JOHNSTON, THE LIQUID ROOM, House band & DJs, 22:30, £tbc TROUBLE, NEIL LANDSTRUMM, C-BISCUIT & TERMITE, music all night long, 22:30, Free CABARET VOLTAIRE, Ravestep, dub, techno, 23:00, £7 (£5) INDIE MIX, NICK A.K.A. & THE DALEK, PIVO CAFFE, Indie, TWISTED, EWAN SMITH, CHRIS GRAHAM, PAUL MILL- alt, Mashup & bootlegs, 21:00, Free ER, KIWI, STUDIO 24, Tech-house, electrohouse, techno, MOTHERFUNK, FRYER & GINO, OPAL LOUNGE, Original 23:00, £5 soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 22:00, Free UNKNOWN PLEASURES, TEVIOT UNION, Indie club, 21:00, SPITFIRES SOCIAL CLUB, RED, Indie social club, 21:00, £3 (£2) Free TROUBLE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Big gay disco to hip hop & SPLIT, EDINBURGH LOCALS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Blend of broken beats, 17:00, 01:00, Free house, techno, d&b, breakbeat, healthy mid-week rave, DANNY TENNENT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, ISLA BLIGE & 23:00, Free THE BLOND FLASH, LULU, Soul, funk, house & latin, 20:00, SYNTHETIC LOVE, DAVA & HOBBES, LULU, set, 20:00, £4, free b4 11pm £7, free b4 12am JEZ HILL, OPAL LOUNGE, Upfront & classic tunes, 22:00, VIBE, JAMES LONGWARTH, EGO, Weekly gay club play£6, free b4 12am ing chart, 23:00, £4

DJ STEW-EASY, EGO, RnB, hip hop & dance - Under 18s ONLY, 18:00, 21:00, £5

TOXIC POP, GEOFF M, JUNIOR CAMPOS & MAX,

CRAVE THE CAVES, RIESER, MIYAGI, ALFONZO, THE

BAMBOO, House music, hip hop & lounge, 22:00, £5,

CAVES, Fundraiser Scottish Surfing Federation, 21:00, £8

free b4 11pm/12.30am students

VIBRATIONS, DJ MINGO-GO & DJ CASIO, CLASSIC GRElectro, 23:00, £6 (£4)

VICE, MARTIN BATE (XFM), THE CATHOUSE - LEVEL 2, Indie rock party, 23:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP TAM COYLE, THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage rock & indie, 21:00, Free

ROBBIE ROLEX & THE RADIO MAGNETIC SOUNDSYSTEM, THE GOAT, Eclectic, 20:00, Free DARIO BERNADI, METROPOLITAN, Electronic disco & soul, 21:00, Free

EDINBURGH CLUBS

THU 1 NOV ALTER EGO, PO NA NA, DJ Diverse with

DUB2CLUB, MANGOMAD & DJ DEFAULT, PIVO CAFFE,

Dance, indie, hip hop & breaks, 17:00, Free THE EGG, CHRIS & PAUL, WEE RED BAR, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 23:00, £5, £4 students/members HEADSPIN, THE BONGO CLUB, 4 deck mix of hip hop, house, beats, 23:00, £6, £5 b4 12am JACKHAMMER, CHRISTIAN SMITH, EGO, Techno, 23:00, £10 (£5) LIQUID SOUL, MARK B & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Chirpy music, 22:30, £6, £3 b4 11pm LUVELY, LIQUID ROOM, Dance, 22:30, £12 (£10) MOOVN, DJ WOOKIE, BERLIN, Deep house, afro, latin, 22:00, £8 (£6) MUCH MORE, NASTY P & CUNNIE, MEDINA, Hip-hop & funk cuts, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm PARTY NIGHT, DJ PAPI & ALEX GATO, EL BARRIO, Salsa night with free classes from 10pm, 23:00, Free RETRIBUTION, STUDIO 24, Goth music for the old, 23:00, £5, £3 students SANCTUARY, STUDIO 24, Underage goth club, 18:00, 21:00, £7 (£5)

soul, 22:30, £6, free b4 11pm

WED 7 NOV BASS INVASION, PACMAN, JOY, SECRET ARCADE, D&b, breakbeat, 21:00, 01:00, Free

CHAMBLES, DJ JEZ HILL, OPAL LOUNGE, Funk & chart, 21:00, £5 (£4)

DEATH DISASTER COLLECTIVE, 3 BANDS, THE BONGO CLUB, Alternative, electro, punk, 23:00, £5 (£4) CITRUS CLUB, Northern soul, 70s funk, disco, 22:30, £4, free b4 12am

THE GOOD GROOVE, BREADMARK & JOHNNY CASHBACK, PIVO CAFFE, Funk, afrobeat, latin breaks & house, 19:00, Free

INDI-GO,

THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie & alternative, 22:30,

£2, £1 students

WE ARE … ELECTRIC, BLACKSTROBE, CABARET VOLTAIRE,

POLYPHONIC SOCIAL CLUB, JACEK ZAMOJSKI & GUESTS, PIVO CAFFE, Electric mash up dance grooves,

60s, electro, glam, madchester, post-punk, 22:30, £4, £3 b4 12am 60s, electro, glam, madchester, post-punk, 22:30, £4, SALSA DISCO, CUBA NORTE, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, £3 b4 12am 21:00, 01:00, Free 22:00, 01:00, Free SALSA DISCO, CUBA NORTE, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, DANNY TENNENT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, ISLA BLIGE & SICK NOTE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Fidget house, booty bass, 22:00, 01:00, Free THE BLOND FLASH, LULU, Soul, funk, house & latin, 20:00, indie, new wave, 23:00, Free SICK NOTE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Fidget house, booty £7, free b4 12am SIREN, WEAK HUNT, THE HIVE, Electro, house, breaks & bass, indie, new wave, 23:00, Free DAVE SHEDAN, OPAL LOUNGE, Vocal house, electro & techno, 23:00, Free SIREN, KENNY BREAKS, THE HIVE, Electro, house, breaks RnB, 22:00, £6, free b4 11pm & techno, 23:00, Free SUN 4 NOV ALL BACK TO MINE, OPAL LOUNGE, mix SOULED OUT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, FRAZER MCGLINCHEY & GUESTS, OPAL LOUNGE, Soul, disco & dance, SOULED OUT, GARETH SOMERVILLE, FRAZER MCof, favourites, 22:00, £3, free b4 11pm 22:00, £3, free b4 12am GLINCHEY & GUESTS, OPAL LOUNGE, Soul, disco & BACK TO BASICS, IAN ANDERSON & BISCUIT D, PIVO STILETTO, JEZ HILL, LULU, Electro-pop, & disco, 20:00, £5, dance, 22:00, £3, free b4 12am CAFFE, Retro dance, 90s & disco, 19:00, Free free b4 10pm STILETTO, JEZ HILL, LULU, Electro-pop, & disco, 20:00, £5, BOOTY, DALE LUSH & FRIENDS, MEDINA, Soul, funk, YIN-YANG, HUGGY, CRAIG SMITH, SHANGHAI (UNDERfree b4 10pm disco & chart, 22:00, £5 NEATH LE MONDE), House, 22:00, £6 (£3) YIN-YANG, HUGGY, CRAIG SMITH, SHANGHAI (UNDER- CURIOUS? SUNDAY JOINT, THE BONGO CLUB, Diverse THE DEPARTURE LOUNGE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Jazz to NEATH LE MONDE), House, 22:00, £6 (£3) selection of music, free internet & games, 16:00, £3, free breakbeats, 21:00, 01:00, Free THE DEPARTURE LOUNGE DJS, ASSEMBLY BAR, Jazz to b4 11pm FRI 9 NOV ASSEMBLY CEILIDH, KEN GOURLAY, ASbreakbeats, 21:00, 01:00, Free FRICTION, DEREK MARTIN & STUART JOHNSTON, SEMBLY ROOMS, Ceilidh, 20:00, 01:00, £10 FRI 2 NOV CLUB, SCOTT ELLIOT, CRAIG GEE & GAV LIQUID ROOM, Weekly dance club, 23:00, £4 (£2), £1 AZ-TECH, BAOBINGA, I.D., THE CAVES, Tech breaks, chillGRANT ON ROTATION, PIVO CAFFE, Classic club music Centro card out jungle, 22:30, £7 (£6) KAYOS, OPIUM, metal & indie, 20:00, Free from the past 15 years, 17:00, Free BASS SYNDICATE, MEAT KATIE, ROGUE ELEMENT, THE NEON/HELLRAISERS BALL, THE HIVE, Goth, indie, bleep, CLUTTER HOUSE, 808 STATE, DMX KREW, DR. CHOP, BONGO CLUB, Breaks, bass, 23:00, £8 industrial, punk & eighties, 23:00, Free MIKE BELL, STUDIO 24, Rave, electro, acid, dubstep, BIG TOE’S HI-FI, ELECTRIC ELIMINATORS, WEE RED BAR, 23:00, £10 (£8) PLAYGIRL MANSIONS, TRENDY WENDY, LULU, Chart Reggae, dub, dancehall, dubstep, 22:00, £5 (£4) CULT, DJ NICKI & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Hip hop, disco, pop & glam, 23:00, £4 CLUB, SCOTT ELLIOT, CRAIG GEE & GAV GRANT ON funk & RnB, 22:00, £5, £2.50 b4 11pm SCOTTISH HOBO SOCIETY (LIVE), LE RENO AMPS, ROTATION, PIVO CAFFE, Classic club music from the past DE LUXE, HUDSON CLUB, Funky house with resident DJs, THE BONGO CLUB, Alternative music for justified sinners, 15 years, 17:00, Free 23:00, £3, free b4 12am 22:30, £3 CULT, DJ NICKI & GUESTS, PO NA NA, Hip hop, disco, funk EVOL, THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats SHAKE, JOHN HUTCHISON (TOKYOBLU), SHANGHAI & RnB, 22:00, £5, £2.50 b4 11pm &, 22:30, £5 (UNDERNEATH LE MONDE), 23:00, £3 DE LUXE, HUDSON CLUB, Funky house with resident DJs, FAST, PAUL VICKERS & THE LEG, THE BONGO CLUB, Punk, SIENTELO!, EL BARRIO, Latin America music mixed with 23:00, £3, free b4 12am funk, disco, electro, 23:00, £5 chart tunes, 23:00, Free DOGTOOTH, HENRYS CELLAR, 23:00, £5 GET FUNK’D, DOUBLE D & ISLA, MEDINA, Hip hop to SOUNDPROOF OPEN DECKS, SOUNDPROOF DJS, EVOL, THE LIQUID ROOM, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats house, 22:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm BARAKA, Open decks night, 20:00, 01:00, Free &, 22:30, £5

RIP IT UP!, DJ DIANA, LEE TAYLOR, WEE RED BAR, Indie,

A DAY WHEN IPODS WILL BE LEFT AT HOME, WHEN CHOIRBOYS WILL SHUT THEIR MOUTHS, AND WHEN JINGLES WON’T JANGLE. THIS IS NO MUSIC DAY, THE VISION OF FORMER KLF TROUBLEMAKER BILL DRUMMOND. HE TELLS RJ THOMSON ABOUT KICKING UP FUSS, AND ASKING FOR QUIET, PLEASE

FREAK,

ULTRAGROOVE 8TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, ELEKTRONS, RED STAR INSTITUTE, PIZLA, MIKEY INGLIS, RED, Electro, JUSTIN LONG, UNABOMBERS, GARETH SOMERVILLE, 19:00, Free RIP IT UP!, DJ DIANA, LEE TAYLOR, WEE RED BAR, Indie, house, breaks & techno, 22:00, Free CABARET VOLTAIRE, House, 22:00, £10 19:00, Free

Shhhh...

CLUB, Swing drop in classes, 19:00, 20:00, n/a

House, electro, tech-house with rotating guests in the back, 23:00, £4, £3 members indie, n roll & electro, 23:00, £5 (£3) BARAKA, Funk, soul, disco, dancehall & reggae, 20:00, BUMP, THE LIQUID ROOM, Chart, 22:30, £2 (£1) 01:00, Free ELECTRIC FREQ, HUGGY, EGO, Electro, breaks, house, SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY, ERIK D’VIKING & ASTROBOY, THE JAZZ BAR, from Jneiro Jarel, Jawwaad & DJ THU 8 NOV ALTER EGO, PO NA NA, DJ Diverse with d&b, 22:30, £4 indie, n roll & electro, 23:00, £5 (£3) GRAFITTI, KIPP$ & MASTER CAIRD, MEDINA, Party tunes Jamad, 23:00, £5, £3 b4 11.30pm SHAKE, JOHN HUTCHINSON, SHANGHAI (UNDERNEATH LE BUMP, THE LIQUID ROOM, Chart, 22:30, £2 (£1) all night, 22:00, £3 (£2) GRAFITTI, KIPP$ & MASTER CAIRD, MEDINA, Party tunes MONDE), Vocal house, party anthems, 23:00, £3 LIC IT, CITRUS CLUB, Student night, 23:00, £2, free b4 SLASHDOT, ROTATING THE HIVE, Techno & electro, d&b, all night, 22:00, £3 (£2) 12am breaks, indie, punk, new wave, 23:00, £5, free b4 12am LIC IT, CITRUS CLUB, Student night, 23:00, £2, free b4 NDAJE, SAMBA SENE, DIWAN, MAKOSSA, WAA SOPHISTIFUNK, JOHN HUTCHISON (TOKYOBLU), CITY, 12am SYLLA DRUMMERS, THE BONGO CLUB, Scottish-African ON/OFF, DUKE DUMONT, THE BONGO CLUB, Electro, House remixes, funky RnB & bootlegs, 23:00, £8 (£4) party, 21:30, 02:30, £6 (£5) TEASE AGE, CITRUS CLUB, All things, motown, alternative & house & techno, 23:00, £5

POLYPHONIC SOCIAL CLUB, JACEK ZAMOJSKI & GUESTS, PIVO CAFFE, Electric mash up dance grooves,

FEATURES

GLASGOW CONT.

GARETH SOMERVILLE (ULTRAGROOVE) & JONNIE LYLEY (SCRATCH), ASSEMBLY BAR, House to hip hop,

LISTINGS

B IS FOR BEACH BOYS For five years now, the musician, activist artist and general maverick Bill Drummond has only listened to music beginning with a randomly selected letter of the alphabet, which he changes once a year. This started when his previous regime, only listening to music that was the first recorded output of the artist in question, broke down: in a weak moment he “succumbed” and played the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and the Best of The Byrds back to back, and the new scheme was born. He would only listen to artists beginning with ‘B’, for a year. But is this self-imposed system pointless eccentricity or a personal good move? Well, Drummond has stuck with it for five years now, so it can’t be purely quirky. After telling me the story of his home listening practices, he concludes: “Suddenly music had a real currency, different from its normal fiscal currency. If I didn’t listen to Bach, Beethoven, Count Basie, Backstreet Boys, this year, I may never live long enough [to listen to them again].” I’m speaking to Drummond in the run up to No Music Day, an initiative he started three years ago. The idea was born out of his own behaviour: the point being, that there is so much instantly available music in the modern world, we need to stop and evaluate its worth from time to time, and what it means to us. W hen I ask Drummond how he feels people should relate to music, he speaks for himself: “I want something more than just what I can hear on my ipod, that I can just stick on my headphones on the bus. I want it to be a far stronger thing than that, and reach far deeper into you.” Based on the growing popularity of his No Music Day initiative, it seems he’s not the only one.

NO MUSIC DAY After having the initial idea that No Music Day might be an interesting enterprise, and choosing 21 November as the day (it is the eve of St Cecilia’s Day, St Cecilia being the patron saint of music), Drummond set up a simple website to support the idea. Without any paid-for publicity, thousands of curious surfers came across it and passed on the word. As Drummond explains, “No Music Day just seems to strike a chord; saying ‘No Music Day’ instantly has a thing in certain people’s heads… people can read into it a lot of different things”. Indeed, dipping into the statements posted on nomusicday.com reveals a full range of answers, from ‘I basically feel that music doesn’t “do” it for me as it used to before’, to ’I’m bored and I need things like this to add a little spice to my life’, to dismissing No Music Day because ‘ITS A DUMB AZZ IDEA.’

www.skinnymag.co.uk

Whatever your views, it’s worth a look at the site – some of the posts show a real connection with the idea of freshness, new sounds and a new approach.

“I WANT SOMETHING MORE FROM MUSIC THAN JUST WHAT I CAN HEAR ON MY IPOD… I WANT IT TO REACH FAR DEEPER INTO YOU” On the back of the success of the website, the first year of No Music Day (2005) Drummond raised enough funds to put up a poster next to the Mersey Tunnel in Liverpool. In 2006 Resonance F M, a London-based ar t radio station, seized on the idea and promoted it further. This year sees the biggest public promotion of the event, with BBC Scotland going music-free for the full 24 hours. Producer David McGuinness approached Drummond and suggested that the station might be able to take part. After McGuinness secured ap-

DRUMMOND’S OWN Bill’s No Music Day statement (November 2005): I am obser ving No Music Day because: all music I hear sounds l i ke s o m eth i n g th at I have heard before. I want to hear something fresh and different that makes me feel emotions that I didn’t know I had instead of the emotions that I have felt a thousand times before. I will be observing No Music Day by: spending the day trying to imagine what a music that I had never heard before would sound like.

proval from the top brass, Drummond was summoned to give a talk to a large assembly of BBC staff about what would be involved. As he said to me, ‘There’s a lot to it. Even the news programmes have jingles that go up to the hour, and they’re not having those.’ Have a listen to BBC Radio Scotland on Wednesday 21 November to see how it goes. Drummond’s initial plan for No Music Day was to run it for five years. Still, with this rate of increased institutional acceptance, it seems

credible that UNESCO might co-opt it by the time he’s seeking to retire the concept. “I know it’s more than faintly ludicrous,” Drummond concedes, “and there are far more important things than No Music Day.” I ask if there is an element of satire in the idea – there certainly are a lot of official ‘Days’ kicking around: “Maybe there is at some point, but I’m not attempting to make this into satire. I wanted to do this and it wasn’t irony, it was for real. But you can’t help but be a bit cynical, even of yourself.” A healthy attitude that, especially for an artist.

PUB CHAT In conversation Drummond is matter of fact and, though capable of a light tone, generally serious. I ask him where he thinks the drive to pull off pranksterish acts comes from (see the box below for some of Drummond’s other activities), and he instantly pulls me up. “I’m very wary of the term ‘prankster’ – it implies that it’s a joke, that it’s not for real. I’m usually too real for my own good.” But there is no sense of ‘tortured genius’ vanity to his frankly stated regrets. “I can look back on my life and see that there are destructive elements in it. It doesn’t come from some dark place; it always just seems natural. That aside, I wish I could switch it off… Most people sit in a pub, have these ideas, and the next morning, they just get on with their day. But I’ll have the ideas in the pub – not that I go to the pub that much – and then wake up the next morning and think: ‘Okay! Let’s do that!’ And it’s a survival instinct not to do the thing. Not to act out those ideas from the night before. I don’t seem to have that, or I seem to have less of it.” If his past record of fun and thought-provoking activities are anything to go by, the world should hope Drummond doesn’t find his ‘off’ switch any time soon. With No Music Day he seems to have found a perfect balance: an opportunity to seep unorthodox ideas into the public imagination, without the short-sharp shock value of the stunts that raised him to notoriety. If I get my way The Skinny office – normally a first spinning post for new releases - will be observing No Music Day. Partly, yes, to give ourselves a chance to think about the kind of music we’d ideally like to listen to. And partly as a gesture of gratitude, to those creative types like Bill Drummond who are brave enough to stick their necks out and suggest things could be a bit different, a bit better, and a bit more imaginative.

I AIN’T NEW TA THIS… If you aren’t familiar with Bill Drummond’s history, the Scot who was Select magazine’s ‘coolest person in pop’ (1993) is well worth looking up. Selected career highlights include:

THE KLF

The band had number one hits and acclaimed albums in the late 80s and early 90s, ‘machine gunned’ the Brit Awards and left a dead sheep outside the afterparty, and wrote The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way).

BURNING A MILLION QUID

Dr u m mond and co -K LF member Ji m my Cauty infamously burnt a million pounds on the Isle of Jura. Drummond recalled to The Skinny: “One of my kids – who is now 20 – came home from school one day, and asked: ‘is it true,’ one of his mates had said this in the playground to him, ‘that you once burned a hundred pounds?’ I said: ‘I wish that was true.’”

BAD ART

Cauty and Drummond teamed up to form the K Foundation, a spoof arts organisation. In November 1993 they presented Rachel W hiteread with a cheque for £40,000 for being the ‘worst artist of the year’, immediately after she had collected a £20,000 cheque for winning the Turner Prize.

THE SOUP LINE

Drummond drew a nominal line on the map through the cities of Belfast and Nottingham, and offered to come to the house of anyone who lived on the line, and make them soup. There was minimal media coverage, but lots of soup and friendliness.

YOUWHORES.COM

Youwhores.com is a trading site where people offer services for a nominated price, anything from graphic design work (for real) to offering to write your life story into an epic poem (for real, just less practical). It’s still the only place online where this writer knows you can conveniently buy or sell a human soul.

WWW.NOMUSICDAY.COM

NOVEMBER 07

THE SKINNY

EDITORIAL

A couple of years ago, I at tended a meeti ng about the then new legislation which made it illegal to discriminate against transsexual people. Marvellous, I thought. Not so, thought many of the others in the room - representatives of prominent women’s organisations whose first reaction was to seek loopholes so that they could continue to deny ser vices to trans women. W hat was going through their heads? I couldn’t be sure, but I’m guessing a combination of mean-spiritedness and Janice bloody Raymond. It felt miserably reminiscent of the Kimberly Nixon case, which took place in Canada a few years back. Nixon was rejected as a volunteer rape counsellor because she was transsexual, and the resulting legal battle led to some vile personal attacks in the media. Many feminists hit out at Nixon, blaming her for diverting the meagre funding of a respected charity rather than blaming the charity itself for perpetuating discriminatory attitudes. While it was deemed acceptable to use the wrong pronouns and condescending language when describing Nixon, the fact that she herself had survived domestic violence and sexual assault was played down. Rather than acknowledge what Nixon had in common with the women she wanted to help, the focus was on the fact that she had been originally been socialised as male – no matter how involuntarily.

Remembering

by Charlotte Cooper

TO MARK THE TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, WE PRESENT AN ADAPTED VERSION OF CHARLOTTE COOPER’S SPEECH, GIVEN AT LONDON’S REMEMBRANCE EVENT LAST YEAR When I was a teenager I was the Saturday g irl at a cha r it y shop in Nor th West London. I had a ver y unconventiona l boss, Linda, and she and her boyfriend John had been quite involved in the 1970s punk scene in London. It was through this scene that they had met people associated with The New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers - bands that I love - including Jayne County, the celebrated punk transsexual; a gorgeous tall blonde who’s now known as Sparkle Moore, and has been a scene face on both sides of the Atlantic; ace photographer Leee Black Childers, who used to manage Iggy Pop and David Bowie in the 70s, and lived with the Warhol drag superstars; and many others. I was lucky enough to be introduced to these people when I was young and pliable. They showed me that life didn’t have to be the suburbs, or my parents, or school. They showed me the beauty of outlaw life, the value of freakdom, at a time when I was just about ready to understand it. I treasure that knowledge - they gave me a wonderful gift. The best times were spent hanging out in the

But hopefully, these attitudes are dying out. Many young (non-trans) feminists demonstrate a greater awareness of transgender issues and a commitment to including trans women. It’s time the high levels of violence experienced by trans people received the attention, and opposition, it deserves. The Transgender Day of Remembrance is one way to raise awareness – check out Charlotte Cooper’s article. And pass it on. /Nine

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back room at the shop with Leee and Jayne. gether. We were all really, massively, ostentaIt was like Wembley’s own version of the back tiously dressed up. You didn’t just say Tara, you room at Max’s Kansas City. I would be grap- had to say Tara O’Hara whenever you referred pling with a huge pile of coathangers and sort- to her. The full name. Tara was probably the ing through the donations whilst they told the most glamorous transsexual I had ever met and wildest stories. They were clearly degenerates in fact when I think of it she still is, all this time - and they didn’t care - and they involved me in later. She could make the most stunning supertheir world, sweetly, kindly, gently. Jayne was a model in the world look dowdy and plain. Tara rare presence because during the 80s she was O’Hara was like a showgirl. If anyone rememspending a lot of time in Berlin with a com- bers her differently, I don’t care because she is cemented in my mind munity of lawless and as this dark-haired creative transsexuals THEY SHOWED ME THE BEAUTY glamazon w ith a who lived there. OF OUTLAW LIFE, THE VALUE OF thrilling German accent. She was like a O n e t i m e J a y n e FREAKDOM, AT A TIME WHEN Bond Girl, a villainbrought some of her I WAS JUST ABOUT READY TO ous one at that. She Berliner friends back wore an outfit that to London and I re- UNDERSTAND IT was par t foxtress, member us all going out together. In the 1980s The Hippodrome, part corrupt East German Party Leader unit hat r id icu lou s bu i ld i ng on t he ed ge of form. She was absolutely gorgeous. Just being Leicester Square, was a viable place to go – un- in the same group as her made you feel gorbelievable when you look at it now. Though this geous too. I was an unsophisticated, fat, substretches the boundaries of astonishment even urban kid and yet here I was, worshipping this further, Peter Stringfellow was a credible club marvellous, magical, wonderful being. She was host and I’d feel excited about maybe catch- the star of the gang, which is no mean feat being a glimpse of him, though these days I can cause there were some major drama queens in barely say his name without retching. So we that bunch. It was inconceivable that she had might have gone to The Hippodrome, but ever answered to a boy’s name, but there you I sort of remember being at the Lyceum. go, there was a time when she did. Today this place is a theatre, but back then it was a cavernous, shabby and Tara O’Hara held court, she was our favourite and we loved to hear stories about her distilled great music and club venue. though Leee or Jayne. Rosa von Praunheim So there was me, Linda and John, Jayne, made a film in 1982 called City of Lost Souls, Leee, maybe some other people, and and Tara O’Hara and Jayne County were both Jayne’s friend Tara, all hanging out to- in it. I’d like to see that film again some time. People come and people go, times move on, faces blur as you get older, and all of a sudden you have memories of your own.

5 EVENTS

I was going to talk about someone else today, something about Paris Is Burning, a film that I watched recently for the first time in years. I was going to talk about Venus Xtravaganza, who was murdered by one of her clients during the making of the film. I went to the Remembering Our Dead website to see if I could find out anything about Venus apart from the fact that she was an underclass street hustler. The website lists transgendered people who have been murdered. Tara O’Hara’s name is there. This is what happened to her. All it says is that in 1983 she was murdered in Berlin, her head was bashed in. That’s all it says. That’s all it says. That’s. All. It. Says.

VENUS AS A BOY

Glasgay! continues into November with this awardwinning performance by Tam Dean Burn. If you didn’t catch it in the Edinburgh Fringe, don’t miss out again! CITIZEN’S THEATRE, 119 GORBALS STREET, GLASGOW THU 1 – SAT 10 NOV (NOT SUN 4 OR MON 5), 7.30PM, £6 - £12

TAMBURLAINE MUST DIE Kenny Miller’s adaptation of Louise Welsh’s book, specially commissioned for Glasgay!, takes on mystery, betrayal and revenge. TRON THEATRE, 63 TRONGATE, GLASGOW SAT 3 - SUN 11 NOV (NOT MON 5), 8PM, £10 - £14

WHO’S YOUR DANDY? A night of international queer & trans poetry & music.

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WO R D P OW ER , 4 3 - 4 5 W EST N I C O L S O N ST R EE T,

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THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS International conference bringing together academics, NGOs and activists. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW HTTP://TINYURL.COM/2Z6MYW FRI 16 NOV, ALL DAY, FREE (BUT REGISTER IN ADVANCE)

DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS

punk, electro, soul, britpop, 21:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm KOOCHI KOO, FC KAHUNA, BLACKFRIARS, Electro, IT SURE BEATS WAITIN’, JUMBLESALE SOUNDS, THE FLYING DUCK, Bass, percussion & scratching, 21:00, Free house & techno, 23:00, £8 b4 11pm MATADOR, FELONIUS MUNK, THE TWISTED WHEEL, & roll, JUNK, MARKY MARK, THE BUFF CLUB, Jazz & funk featur- 21:00, 01:00, Free MIXED BIZNESS, SPEAKER JUNK, THE ARCHES, Fidget ing live percussion by Duffy, 23:00, £3, free w/matric house, 22:30, £7.50 OPTIMO, JD TWITCH & JG WILKES, THE SUB CLUB, MaxiNOJ, POLAR BAR (ABC), No Music Policy, 23:00, £6 (£4), mum, 23:00, £6 (£5) free b4 11.30pm w/matric. ON THE SABBATH, CIARAN O’TOOLE & KIERAN ELOLD SCHOOL, GORDIE & JACK, THE BUFF CLUB, Old LIOT, CATWALK, 19:00, Free school tunes, 22:30, £6 SOUL SUNDAYS, PAUL CRAWFORD, FIREWATER, Indie, OOFT PRECLUB, ALI & GRAEME (SKYROCKET), TERMIpunk &, 16:00, Free NAL BAR, Electronic/dub, 21:00, 01:00, Free SPANK, THE CATHOUSE, punk & dance, 23:00, £4 (£2), RED & GOLD ROOM, ARTA, Soul musak, 22:00, £7, free b4 12am with PIYP free b4 11pm TRICKY DISCO, JON MANCINI & KRIS KEEGAN, KAR-

GHQ

Take the time to savour the experience. GHQ is not just nice, it’s beautiful; the layout is gorgeous. Designed by the company responsible for the Met Bar in London, United Designers, it has white leather seats, black and white cushions and beds surrounded by black fringes. This place has wow factor written all over it. Free

BAR REVIEW to get in between 5 and 11pm with a dress code (no jeans or trainers), drinks are reasonably priced with some £2 drinks deals thrown in too for good measure. There are three spaces inside (bar, chill out, and dance floor), and caves with a canopied seating area outside for the smokers - it seems they really have thought of every-

BON, House, 23:00, £5

REHAB DARK, CHRIS LIEBING, ANDERSON NOISE, THE

floor fillers, 21:30, £3

ROUTE 666, NICOLA WALKER, CATWALK, 19:00, Free SEISMIC, ALTERN8, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Rave

WE LOVE SUNDAYS, JIM DA BEST, BOHO, Party tunes & AARON PETRIE, METROPOLITAN, Chill house, 21:00, Free WED 14 NOV AFTER HOURS, GERRY LYONS, THE BUFF CLUB, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00, £3

DELIVERANCE, DJ DEC & COLIN, THE CATHOUSE, Metal, emo &, 23:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP JOINTS & JAMS, CUBE, The Longest running RnB night in Glasgow, 23:00, £3 (£2) MJAM SALSA, CHRIS TRAYNOR, LIPTONS, Salsa classes from 8pm, free club from 10.15pm, 20:00, Free NEW FLESH, FURY MURRY’S, metal, punk, rap, industrial & alternative music, 22:00, £4, £2 from 10pm-11pm, £1 with flyer/after 11pm OCTOPUSSY, THE ARCHES, Student night with bouncy castle, swimming pool, jacuzzi & wedding chapel, 23:00, £4 POP -IT, DAVE MULHOLLCATWALK, Mixed Bag, 19:00, Free

SQUARE GO!, NICKQ, FREAK SCENE DJS, MAGGIE MAYS, Live bands & club, 20:00, £3

TONGUE IN CHEEK,

BAMBOO, Lounge, RnB & indie,

22:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am w/matric MARTIN BATE (BEAT 106), THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage, 21:00, Free

THU 15 NOV 45 KICKS, ALEX & JOHN, THE BUFF CLUB, New York & underground inspired beats, 23:00, £3 BABAZA, BELO, Hip hop with the funk, 22:00, £6, free b4 11pm CHILDREN OF THE 80S, CLASSIC GRDJs & live performances, 80s tunes, 23:00, £5 (£3)

thing. And long may it continue! Aimed at primarily the young professional market, this place has something for everyone: even your straight friends will appreciate it. [mkp] GHQ, 4 PICARDY PLACE, EDINBURGH OPEN 5PM - 3AM SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, PRICES VARY.

UP THE RACKET, DJ TOAST, FIREWATER, Indie, soul, britpop, punk, 16:00, £4 (£3), free b4 10.30pm CJ, THE BUNKER BAR, Grunge & new, 21:00, Free KEVIN STEVENS, METROPOLITAN, Funk, 21:00, Free

FRI 16 NOV ABC FRIDAYS, EUAN NEILSON, ABC1, Genre mash-up, 23:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm w/ matric. ANIMAL FARM, TURTLE & QUAIL, BLOC, House, techno & electro, 22:00, Free BALLBREAKER, BARRY & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, & metal, 22:30, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am with PIYP

Because your month isn’t complete without a lesbian vampire movie.

BALLERS SOCIAL CLUB, ANDREW MEZA, NADSROIC,

FILMHOUSE, 88 LOTHIAN ROAD, EDINBURGH

BOOGIE DOWN, STEWART REID, BLUU, Jazz, disco &

THU 29 NOV, 11PM, £6/£4.50

house sounds, 22:00, £5, free b4 11pm COMPUTELOVE, THE MIXING ROOMS, Electronic sounds, 20:00, Free

THE IVY, Club RnB, hip hop, 21:00, 01:00, £3

COTTON CAKE, CLAUDE VONSTROKE, THE SUB CLUB, Tech-funk, 23:00, £10 (£8)

FREAKMENOOVERS,

RUST BAR, Early doors serving of hip hop, funk, RnB & soul, 21:00, Free

FREAKMENOOVERS, FREAKMENOOVERS DJS, BLANVenus as a Boy

10 THE SKINNY NOVEMBER 07

LGBT

anthems, 23:00, £tbc

SOUND MUSEUM, DJ HUSHPUPPY (ART SCHOOL) & CHRIS GEDDES (BELLE & SEBASTIAN), BREL, Retro soul, 21:00, 01:00, Free

SPARKIES, MARK ROBB, CAFÉ RIO, Jazz, funk, 20:00, Free

STEREODOG, MR. LIVEWIRE & GARY CURLEY, CHINAWHITE, House, 22:00, £8 (£5)

TOXIC POP, GEOFF M, JUNIOR CAMPOS & MAX, BAMBOO, House music, hip hop & lounge, 22:00, £5,

free b4 11pm/12.30am students

VIBRATIONS, DJ MINGO-GO & DJ CASIO, CLASSIC GRElectro, 23:00, £6 (£4)

VICE, MARTIN BATE (XFM), THE CATHOUSE - LEVEL 2, Indie, party, 23:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP TAM COYLE, THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage, 21:00, Free FERHIE, SILICONE SOUL, CLUB CLINIC, House, dance, 22:00, £10

KILLER DILLER DJS, THE TWISTED WHEEL, & roll, 14:00, 18:00, Free

SUN 18 NOV CLUB PRIORY: RETOX ROOMS, DJ RICHARD LEVINSON, BLANKET, RnB, 23:00, £5 (£3) COLD NIGHT SONG, THE GOAT, Guests & DJs play

CJ, THE BUNKER BAR, Grunge & new, 21:00, Free KEVIN STEVENS, METROPOLITAN, Funk & soul, 21:00, Free 21ST CENTURY SOUND, SAN SEBASTIAN, DANSE OR DIE, THE ARCHES, Dance house, 22:00, £10 FRI 23 NOV ABC FRIDAYS, EUAN NEILSON, ABC1,

mash-up, 23:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. BALLBREAKER, BARRY & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, & metal, 22:30, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am with BAMBOO, Classic house music all night long with other PIYP boogie next door, 22:00, £5 (£3), free b4 10.30pm/ BOOGIE DOWN, STEWART REID, BLUU, Jazz, disco & 12.30pm w/matric house sounds, 22:00, £5, free b4 11pm IT SURE BEATS WAITIN’, JUMBLESALE SOUNDS, THE FLYCOMPUTELOVE, THE MIXING ROOMS, Electronic sounds, ING DUCK, Bass, percussion & scratching, 21:00, Free 20:00, Free b4 11pm JUNK, MARKY MARK, THE BUFF CLUB, Jazz & funk featur- ELECTROBALL, KARBON, 80’s, nu-wave, & punk, 22:30, £tbc ing live percussion by Duffy, 23:00, £3, free w/matric FLIRTINI FRIDAYS, JIM DA BEST, BOHO, Party tunes & floor OPTIMO, JD TWITCH & JG WILKES, THE SUB CLUB, Maxifillers, 21:30, £6 mum, 23:00, £6 (£5) ON THE SABBATH, CIARAN O’TOOLE & KIERAN ELLIOT, FLUID, LISA LITTLEWOOD, MAS, Funky house, 23:00, £5 FOOT WORK, JAMIE BISSMIRE, PAUL LANGLEY, SOUNDCATWALK, 19:00, Free HAUS, Techno, 22:30, £10 (£9) SOUL SUNDAYS, PAUL CRAWFORD, FIREWATER, Indie, FREAKMENOOVERS, RUST BAR, Early doors serving of hip punk &, 16:00, Free hop, funk, RnB & soul, 21:00, Free SPANK, THE CATHOUSE, punk & dance, 23:00, £4 (£2),

DISCO BADGER, DOMINIC MARTIN, KASH & MAX,

free b4 12am with PIYP

FREAKMENOOVERS, FREAKMENOOVERS DJS, BLAN-

BON, House, 23:00, £5

HOME OF THE GROOVES, MARK ROBB, MAGGIE MAYS,

floor fillers, 21:30, £3

HORRORSHOW, CRAIG MCGEE, FIREWATER, Indie, punk,

TRICKY DISCO, JON MANCINI & KRIS KEEGAN, KARWE LOVE SUNDAYS, JIM DA BEST, BOHO, Party tunes & NEIL WYPER, THE BUNKER BAR, New & old, & electronica, 21:00, Free

AARON PETRIE, METROPOLITAN, Chill house, 21:00, Free TUE 20 NOV ALL STAR, ANDY WILSON & DJ KASH, BAMBOO, Funk & hip pop, 22:00, £4 (£2), free b4 11pm/

12.30am w/matric

FOLK IT!, FOLKS, THE MIXING ROOMS, Up & coming folk musician session, 20:00, 01:00, Free KALEIDOSCOPE LIVE, ABC2, Old school, & roll, soul, funk, from the 1960’s-1980’s, 22:00, £3, free w/matric. After 12am KILLER KITSCH, THE BUFF CLUB, Electroclash & that, 23:00, £4 (£3) REVOLUTION, MARTIN BATE (XFM), QMU, & punk, 22:00, 02:15, £2, £1 members

KET, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, 23:00, £6 (£4)

Jazz, funk, soul, 23:00, £5

electro, soul, britpop, 21:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm LE SUITE 69, LE BOF, BLACKFRIARS, French garage pop, 23:00, £5 NOJ, POLAR BAR (ABC), No Music Policy, 23:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. OLD SCHOOL, GORDIE & JACK, THE BUFF CLUB, Old school tunes, 22:30, £6

OOFT PRECLUB, ALI & GRAEME (SKYROCKET), TERMINAL BAR, Electronic/dub, 21:00, 01:00, Free

OPTIMO BIRTHDAY, OPTIMO, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Very, 22:00, £tbc

RED & GOLD ROOM,

ROUTE 666, NICOLA WALKER, CATWALK, 19:00, Free SOUND MUSEUM, DJ HUSHPUPPY (ART SCHOOL) & CHRIS GEDDES (BELLE & SEBASTIAN), BREL, Retro soul,

BON, Dance, 22:30, £5 (£4)

21:00, 01:00, Free

ABC1, Soul, punk, & indie dance, 23:00, £7 (£5), free b4

BUFF CLUB, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00, £3

Free

SAT 17 NOV ABC SATURDAYS, GERRY LYONS, 11.30pm w/matric.

ABC SATURDAYS, DAVID SINCLAIR (KILLER KITSCH),

WED 21 NOV AFTER HOURS, GERRY LYONS, THE DELIVERANCE, DJ DEC & COLIN, THE CATHOUSE, Metal,

KARBON SATURDAYS, KEV MCFARLANE, STEPHEN LEE & WOODY, KARBON, House & hip hop, 22:30, £tbc MONOX, TERENCE FIXMER, SOUNDHAUS, Techno, 23:00, £12 (£10)

NOISE OF ART, KRAZY BALDHEAD, WILLIAMS, BEN OSBORNE, FUNKCUTTER/PUNKVERT, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Electronic music, live bands & DJs,

22:30, £6 (£5)

SCHOOL OF ART, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, Record Playerz

in the bar, 23:00, £4 (£3)

FREAKSCENE, JOHN, POLAR BAR (ABC), Indie, 23:00, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm w/matric.

THE FUNKY PRECEDENT, D_FADE, DUNCAN HARVEY & BOOM MONK BEN, SAINT JUDE’S, Hip hop, funk, soul & motown, 20:00, Free

MIX GENERATOR, DJ FRAMIE, CATWALK, Classic, maetal ROUTE 666, CIARAN O’TOOLE, CATWALK, Classic & cult, & alternative, 19:00, Free 19:00, Free ON DEMDJ EUAN, THE SHED, Requests by text message SUBCULTURE, MARCUS WORGULL, THE SUB CLUB, Live on Radio 1 Essential Mix, 23:00, £8, £5 b4 12am

TRONIC, BOXCUTTER, GRAVIOUS, SOLAR PERPLEXUS, BLACKFRIARS, Dub, techno, electronica, 23:00, £8 VOODOO, THE CATHOUSE, Under-18 club with metal, emo & punk, 17:00, 21:30, £6 (£3)

at this interactive club night, 22:30, £3

PLASTIC FUNK, MARK ROBB, TANIA & FRIENDS, BAMBOO, Funk, soul &, n roll, 22:30, £4 (£3), free b4

11pm/12.30am w/matric

RADIOMAGNETIC, RADIOMAGNETIC DJS, GAZELLE, Funk, soul & latin grooves, 20:00, Free

DJ TOAST & MASH, THE BUNKER BAR, 21:00, Free RECORD PLAYERZ, HI-FI SEAN & HUSHPUPPY, THE VIC BARRY, ERIC & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, All things, 22:30, £6 BAR, Disco electro, 23:00, £4 (£3) (£5), free b4 11pm with PIYP RUBBERMENSCH, ABC2, A night for indie lovers, 23:00, DJ NAEEM & MIRRIRBAW, CHINAWHITE, Main room RnB £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. &, funky house in the Mao room, 22:00, £10 FISH MONEY DJS, BLOC, 22:00, Free PAUL NEEDLES, THE GOAT, 20:00, Free NUMBERS DJS, THE IVY, Techno, 21:00, 01:00, Free

Jazz, funk, soul, 23:00, £5

SCOTT STRACHAN, METROPOLITAN, House & funk,

LEYS, pre-club music, 21:00, Free

SKINT, DJ BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, Metal, hip hop &, 23:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP

THE THURSDAY CLUB, GERRY LYONS & BRIAN, THE GARAGE, 23:00, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP

UP THE RACKET, DJ TOAST, FIREWATER, Indie, soul, britpop, punk, 16:00, £4 (£3), free b4 10.30pm ZERO THURSDAYS, DJ NORMSKI, BOHO, Funk, electro &

ARTA, Soul musak, 22:00, £7, free

b4 11pm

soul, 21:00, Free

PAUL CAWLEY & KARIM THE PRO-VINYLIST, MACSOR-

www.skinnymag.co.uk

house, 21:30, £3

acoustic gems, 20:00, Free

ROBBIE ROLEX & THE RADIO MAGNETIC SOUNDSYSTEM, THE GOAT, 20:00, Free HARRI, THE IVY, House, 21:00, 01:00, Free DARIO BERNADI, METROPOLITAN, Electronic disco & T.I.T., LISA LITTLEWOOD & GRAEME FERGUSON, KAR-

KET, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, 23:00, £6 (£4)

HOME OF THE GROOVES, MARK ROBB, MAGGIE MAYS, photo: www.jethrocollins.co.uk

CLASSIC GRTribal techno, 23:00, £12

21:00, Free

emo &, 23:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP JOINTS & JAMS, CUBE, The Longest running RnB night in CIGARETTES & F**K ALL, CRAIG MCGEE, THE BUTTERFLY ABC2, Electro, house & pop, 23:00, £7 (£5), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. Glasgow, 23:00, £3 (£2) & THE PIG, Indie & ‘n’ roll, 21:00, 01:00, Free BAD ROBOT, LOOSE JOINTS & STEVIE ELEMENTS, GLAS- MJAM SALSA, CHRIS TRAYNOR, LIPTONS, Salsa classes FREAKMOVES, FIERRO FUXX, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF GOW SCHOOL OF ART, to techno & breakbeats, 23:00, £6 from 8pm, free club from 10.15pm, 20:00, Free ART, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, Record Playerz in the bar, (£5), £2 GSA, free after 12am 23:00, £4 (£3) NEW FLESH, FURY MURRY’S, metal, punk, rap, industrial & FREAKSCENE, JOHN, POLAR BAR (ABC), Indie, 23:00, £4 DEATH DISCO 5TH BIRTHDAY, RITON, MIDNIGHT JUG- alternative music, 22:00, £4, £2 from 10pm-11pm, £1 GERNAUTS, FREEFORM FIVE, JUSTUS KOHNCKE, THE (£3), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. with flyer/after 11pm ARCHES, Electronic, 23:00, £12 THE FUNKY PRECEDENT, D_FADE, DUNCAN HARVEY POP -IT, DAVE MULHOLLCATWALK, Mixed Bag, 19:00, Free & BOOM MONK BEN, SAINT JUDE’S, Hip hop, funk, soul & DIVERSION, HOXTON WHORES, CLASSIC GRHouse, twisted electro, fidget house, 23:00, £8 SQUARE GO!, NICKQ, FREAK SCENE DJS, MAGGIE motown, 20:00, Free HOW’S YOUR PARTY?..., SPEKTRUM, BEN WESTBEECH, DIVINE!, MR. DIVINE & HUSHPUPPY, THE VIC BAR, North- MAYS, Live bands & club, 20:00, £3 ern soul, funk, ska & mod tunes, 23:00, £6 (£5) TONGUE IN CHEEK, BAMBOO, Lounge, RnB & indie, THE SUB CLUB, Live soul, house & broken beat, 21:00, £6 MIX GENERATOR, DJ FRAMIE, CATWALK, Classic, maetal DON’T FIGHT IT FEEL IT, MAGGIE MAYS, Indie, & roll, psy- 22:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am w/matric che, 23:00, £5 MARTIN BATE (BEAT 106), THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage, & alternative, 19:00, Free ON DEMDJ EUAN, THE SHED, Requests by text message GLAMORAMA, LIL RICH, BOHO, 90s house, 80s, RnB & 21:00, Free THU 22 NOV 45 KICKS, ALEX & JOHN, THE BUFF CLUB, chart, 21:30, £8 at this interactive club night, 22:30, £3 New York & underground inspired beats, 23:00, £3 GROOVEJET, MAS, Weekly house & RnB mix, 23:00, PLASTIC FUNK, MARK ROBB, TANIA & FRIENDS, £7 (£5) BABAZA, BELO, Hip hop with the funk, 22:00, £6, free BAMBOO, Funk, soul &, n roll, 22:30, £4 (£3), free b4 b4 11pm HANOI ROCKS, CRAIG WILSON, FIREWATER, Indie, & 11pm/12.30am w/matric CHEW THE FAT!..., TREVOR LOVEYS, THE SUB CLUB, britpop, 12:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm RADIOMAGNETIC, RADIOMAGNETIC DJS, GAZELLE, HIP DROP, ROBBIE ROLEX & NEL, BREL, Funk, soul, elec- Breaks, house, 23:00, £5 Funk, soul & latin grooves, 20:00, Free CHILDREN OF THE 80S, CLASSIC GRDJs & live performtro & disco, 21:00, 01:00, Free RECORD PLAYERZ, HI-FI SEAN & HUSHPUPPY, THE VIC HOME COOKIN’, BELO, Urban music showcase, 22:00, ances, 80s tunes, 23:00, £5 (£3) BAR, Disco electro, 23:00, £4 (£3) CHIX ON DEX, CHINAWHITE, funkpunk & house all mixed RUBBERMENSCH, ABC2, A night for indie lovers, 23:00, £7, free b4 11pm HOMEGROWN, STEVIE SOLE MIDDLETON, DOMENIC by lovely ladies, 22:00, £4, free b4 11pm £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. MARTIN & SCOTTIE B, BAMBOO, House & smooth RnB, CIGARETTES & F**K ALL, CRAIG MCGEE, THE BUTTERFLY SKINT, DJ BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, Metal, hip hop &, 23:00, jazz & funk, 21:00, £5, free b4 10.30pm/12.30am & THE PIG, Indie & ‘n’ roll, 21:00, 01:00, Free £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP students FREAKMOVES, DEPORTIVO STREET TEAM, GLASGOW THE THURSDAY CLUB, GERRY LYONS & BRIAN, THE GARAGE, 23:00, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP

EDINBURGH MON 12 NOV, 7.30PM, FREE (DONATIONS WELCOME!)

HORRORSHOW, CRAIG MCGEE, FIREWATER, Indie,

boogie, 22:30, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm/12.30pm w/matric

LISTINGS

LGBT

DISCO BADGER, RUMBLE STRIPS, BAMBOO, House &

SPARKIES, MARK ROBB, CAFÉ RIO, Jazz, funk, 20:00, STEREODOG, MR. LIVEWIRE & GARY CURLEY, CHINAWHITE, House, 22:00, £8 (£5)

TOXIC POP, GEOFF M, JUNIOR CAMPOS & MAX, BAMBOO, House music, hip hop & lounge, 22:00, £5, free

b4 11pm/12.30am students

VIBRATIONS, DJ MINGO-GO & DJ CASIO, CLASSIC GRElectro, 23:00, £6 (£4)

VICE, MARTIN BATE (XFM), THE CATHOUSE - LEVEL 2, Indie, party, 23:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP TAM COYLE, THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage, 21:00, Free

ROBBIE ROLEX & THE RADIO MAGNETIC SOUNDSYSTEM, THE GOAT, 20:00, Free BOOM MONK BEN, THE IVY, Hiop hop, funk, 21:00, 01:00, Free

DARIO BERNADI, METROPOLITAN, Electronic disco & soul, 21:00, Free

SAT 24 NOV 5TH BIRTHDAY, LUKE SOLOMON,

JUSTIN HARRIS, BAMBOO, Freaky house, 22:30, £7, free w/matric. Card b4 12.30am

ABC SATURDAYS, GERRY LYONS, ABC1, Soul, punk, & indie dance, 23:00, £7 (£5), free b4 11.30pm w/matric.

ABC SATURDAYS, DAVID SINCLAIR (KILLER KITSCH), ABC2, Electro, house & pop, 23:00, £7 (£5), free b4

11.30pm w/matric.

BAD ROBOT, LOOSE JOINTS & STEVIE ELEMENTS, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, to techno & breakbeats, 23:00, £6

(£5), £2 GSA, free after 12am

DECODANCE, GUESTS, CLASSIC GRGlamorous house, 23:00, £8

DIVINE!, MR. DIVINE & HUSHPUPPY, THE VIC BAR, Northern soul, funk, ska & mod tunes, 23:00, £6 (£5) DON’T FIGHT IT FEEL IT, MAGGIE MAYS, Indie, & roll, psyche, 23:00, £5 HANOI ROCKS, CRAIG WILSON, FIREWATER, Indie, & britpop, 12:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm HIP DROP, ROBBIE ROLEX & NEL, BREL, Funk, soul, electro & disco, 21:00, 01:00, Free HOME COOKIN’, BELO, Urban music showcase, 22:00, £7, free b4 11pm INSIDE OUT, THE ARCHES, Hard dance, trance, 22:00, £tbc

KARBON SATURDAYS, KEV MCFARLANE, STEPHEN LEE & WOODY, KARBON, House & hip hop, 22:30, £tbc MELTING POT, SIMON LEE, THE ADMIRAL, Disco, latin, funk, house, 23:00, £10

ROUTE 666, CIARAN O’TOOLE, CATWALK, Classic & cult, 19:00, Free

SOUND THE ALARM, TJ KONG, JASON BRUNTON, LINE IDLE, CLEDUS SNOW, BASURA BLANCA, Andnotor record launch party - techno, house & disco, 22:00, 02:00, £7 SUBCULTURE, HARRI & DOM, THE SUB CLUB, Weekly snapshot of the ever-evolving house blueprint, 23:00, £8, £5 b4 12am UN-SCENE, BLOC, Ecelectic dance, 22:00, 03:00, Free VOODOO, THE CATHOUSE, Under-18 club with metal, emo & punk, 17:00, 21:30, £6 (£3)

NOVEMBER 07 THE SKINNY

GLASGOW CLUBS THU 1 NOV 45 KICKS, ALEX & JOHN, THE BUFF CLUB, New York & underground inspired beats, 23:00, £3

ART OF PARTIES, KNIFE HAND CHOP, THE SUB CLUB, Electronic, brakcore mess, 23:00, £5, £3 b4 12am BABAZA, BELO, Hip hop with the funk, 22:00, £6, free b4 11pm CHILDREN OF THE 80S, CLASSIC GRDJs & live performances, 80s tunes, 23:00, £5 (£3) CHIX ON DEX, CHINAWHITE, funkpunk & house all mixed by lovely ladies, 22:00, £4, free b4 11pm

CIGARETTES & F**K ALL, CRAIG MCGEE, THE BUTTERFLY &

01:00, Free

DARIO BERNADI, METROPOLITAN, Electronic disco & soul, 21:00, Free

MOTHER & THE ADDICTS DJS, THE TWISTED WHEEL, Indie, post punk, 21:00, 01:00, Free

SAT 3 NOV ABC SATURDAYS, GERRY LYONS, ABC1, Soul, punk, & indie dance, 23:00, £7 (£5), free b4 11.30pm w/matric.

ABC SATURDAYS, DAVID SINCLAIR (KILLER KITSCH), ABC2, Electro, house & pop, 23:00, £7 (£5), free b4

11.30pm w/matric.

THE PIG, Indie & ‘n’ roll, 21:00, 01:00, Free

ALL TORE UP, BLACKFRIARS, 1950s, & roll, 22:00, £5 BAD ROBOT, LOOSE JOINTS & STEVIE ELEMENTS, GLAS-

SCHOOL OF ART, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, Record Playerz

GOW SCHOOL OF ART, to techno & breakbeats, 23:00, £6

FREAKMOVES, FREAKMENOOVERS DJS, GLASGOW

BAMBOO, Funk & hip pop, 22:00, £4 (£2), free b4 11pm/12.30am w/matric KALEIDOSCOPE LIVE, ABC2, Old school, & roll, soul, funk, from the 1960’s-1980’s, 22:00, £3, free w/matric. After 12am KILLER KITSCH, THE BUFF CLUB, Electroclash & that, 23:00, £4 (£3) REVOLUTION, MARTIN BATE (XFM), QMU, & punk, 22:00, 02:15, £2, £1 members

T.I.T., LISA LITTLEWOOD & GRAEME FERGUSON, KARBON, Dance, 22:30, £5 (£4)

WED 7 NOV AFTER HOURS, GERRY LYONS, THE BUFF CLUB, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00, £3

DELIVERANCE, DJ DEC & COLIN, THE CATHOUSE, Metal,

emo &, 23:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP JOINTS & JAMS, CUBE, The Longest running RnB night BEBADO 6TH BIRTHDAY, SAMBAYABAMBA, SWINGFREAKSCENE, JOHN, POLAR BAR (ABC), Indie, 23:00, £4 in Glasgow, 23:00, £3 (£2) ING GUITARS, QMU, Brazilian, samba, world, breaks, (£3), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. 22:00, £7.50, £5 students MJAM SALSA, CHRIS TRAYNOR, LIPTONS, Salsa classes THE FUNKY PRECEDENT, D_FADE, DUNCAN HARVEY & BOOM MONK BEN, SAINT JUDE’S, Hip hop, funk, soul & DECODANCE, GUESTS, CLASSIC GRGlamorous house, from 8pm, free club from 10.15pm, 20:00, Free 23:00, £8 NEW FLESH, FURY MURRY’S, metal, punk, rap, industrial & motown, 20:00, Free DIVINE! 17TH BIRTHDAY, MR. DIVINE & HUSHPUPPY, alternative music, 22:00, £4, £2 from 10pm-11pm, £1 MISBEHAVIN, DOLLY DAYDREAM & DRUCIFER, THE THE VIC BAR, Northern soul, funk, ska & mod tunes, with flyer/after 11pm CATHOUSE, Disco, electro, IDM, alternative & sleaze, 23:00, 23:00, £6 (£5) OCTOPUSSY, THE ARCHES, Student night with bouncy £4 (£2) DON’T FIGHT IT FEEL IT, MAGGIE MAYS, Indie, & roll, psy- castle, swimming pool, jacuzzi & wedding chapel, 23:00, MIX GENERATOR, DJ FRAMIE, CATWALK, Classic, maetal che, 23:00, £5 £4 & alternative, 19:00, Free GLAMORAMA, LIL RICH, BOHO, 90s house, 80s, RnB & POP -IT, DAVE MULHOLLCATWALK, Mixed Bag, 19:00, ON DEMDJ EUAN, THE SHED, Requests by text message Free chart, 21:30, £8 at this interactive club night, 22:30, £3 SQUARE GO!, NICKQ, FREAK SCENE DJS, MAGGIE HANOI ROCKS, CRAIG WILSON, FIREWATER, Indie, & PLASTIC FUNK, MARK ROBB, TANIA & FRIENDS, BAMMAYS, Live bands & club, 20:00, £3 britpop, 12:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm BOO, Funk, soul &, n roll, 22:30, £4 (£3), free b4 11pm/ HIP DROP, ROBBIE ROLEX & NEL, BREL, Funk, soul, elec- TONGUE IN CHEEK, BAMBOO, Lounge, RnB & indie, 12.30am w/matric 22:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am w/matric tro & disco, 21:00, 01:00, Free RADIOMAGNETIC, RADIOMAGNETIC DJS, GAZELLE, HOME COOKIN’, BELO, Urban music showcase, 22:00, MARTIN BATE (BEAT 106), THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage, Funk, soul & latin grooves, 20:00, Free 21:00, Free £7, free b4 11pm in the bar, 23:00, £4 (£3)

RECORD PLAYERZ, HI-FI SEAN & HUSHPUPPY, THE VIC BAR, Disco electro, 23:00, £4 (£3)

RUBBERMENSCH,

ABC2, A night for indie lovers, 23:00, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm w/matric.

THE THURSDAY CLUB, GERRY LYONS & BRIAN, THE GA-

(£5), £2 GSA, free after 12am

HOMEGROWN, STEVIE SOLE MIDDLETON, DOMENIC THU 8 NOV 45 KICKS, ALEX & JOHN, THE BUFF CLUB, MARTIN & SCOTTIE B, BAMBOO, House & smooth RnB, New York & underground inspired beats, 23:00, £3 BABAZA, BELO, Hip hop with the funk, 22:00, £6, free jazz & funk, 21:00, £5, free b4 10.30pm/12.30am students

b4 11pm

CHILDREN OF THE 80S,

CLASSIC GRDJs & live perform-

KARBON SATURDAYS, KEV MCFARLANE, STEPHEN LEE & WOODY, KARBON, House & hip hop, 22:30, £tbc ances, 80s tunes, 23:00, £5 (£3) UP THE RACKET, DJ TOAST, FIREWATER, Indie, soul, britpop, NU-SCHOOL, THE BUFF CLUB, Fresh northern soul, jazz & CHIX ON DEX, CHINAWHITE, funkpunk & house, 22:00, RAGE, 23:00, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP

punk, 16:00, £4 (£3), free b4 10.30pm

ZERO THURSDAYS, DJ NORMSKI, BOHO, Funk, electro & house, 21:30, £3

funk featuring live percussion, downstairs, 22:30, £6

CIGARETTES & F**K ALL, CRAIG MCGEE, THE BUTTERFLY THE REALLY REALLY WILD SHOW, FOXFACE, NIGHT& THE PIG, Indie & ‘n’ roll, 21:00, 01:00, Free JAR, NEW STEREO, Live indie, folk, 20:00, £3 ROUTE 666, CIARAN O’TOOLE, CATWALK, Classic & cult, FREAKMOVES, FREAKMENOOVERS DJS, GLASGOW

CJ, THE BUNKER BAR, Grunge & new, 21:00, Free KEVIN STEVENS, METROPOLITAN, Funk & soul, 21:00, Free 19:00, Free LOW DEUCE DJS, THE TWISTED WHEEL, metal, punk, indus- SPECIALITEE, CRYSTAL DISTORTION, SOUNDHAUS, trial, 21:00, 01:00, Free

FRI 2 NOV ABC FRIDAYS, EUAN NEILSON, ABC1, Genre mash-up, 23:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. ANIMAL FARM, TURTLE & QUAIL, BLOC, House, techno & electro, 22:00, Free BALLBREAKER, BARRY & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, & metal, 22:30, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am with PIYP THE BASEMENT, SOUNDHAUS, Techno, house, electro, 22:30, £8, £5 b4 11.30pm BURLY, DJ MISHKA, THE ARCHES, Gay night for gay & bi men aged 25+, 23:00, £10 COMPUTELOVE, THE MIXING ROOMS, Electronic sounds, 20:00, Free DO THIS DO THAT, LANGE, SIGNUM, THE CLINIC, Hard house, 22:00, £12, £10 b4 12am FLUID, LISA LITTLEWOOD, MAS, Funky house, 23:00, £5 FREAKMENOOVERS, RUST BAR, Early doors serving of hip hop, funk, RnB & soul, 21:00, Free

FREAKMENOOVERS, FREAKMENOOVERS DJS, BLANKET, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, 23:00, £6 (£4)

HOME OF THE GROOVES, MARK ROBB, MAGGIE MAYS, Jazz, funk, soul, 23:00, £5

HORRORSHOW, CRAIG MCGEE, FIREWATER, Indie, punk, electro, soul, britpop, 21:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

MOTION, SCOTT FRASER, DANNY SHARKEY, BLACKFRIARS, Deep house, 23:00, £8

NOJ,

POLAR BAR (ABC), No Music Policy, 23:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm w/matric.

NUMBERS, MODESELEKTOR, RUSTIE, JD TWITCH, MARTIN RUBADUB, JACKMASTER, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Mash-up, electro, hip hop, techno, disco, dancehall,

22:00, £12

OLD SCHOOL, GORDIE & JACK, THE BUFF CLUB, Old school tunes, 22:30, £6

OOFT PRECLUB, ALI & GRAEME (SKYROCKET), TERMINAL BAR, Electronic/dub, 21:00, 01:00, Free

PINUP NIGHTS, THE KLAXONS DJS, SCUNNER, THE MARTIAL ARTS, BRONTO SKYLIFT, THE BEAT CLUB, Indie, punk, soul & electropop, 21:00, £5 (£4) RELENTLESS, BEN SIMS, THE SUB CLUB, Techno, 23:00, £10 ROUTE 666, NICOLA WALKER, CATWALK, 19:00, Free

SOUND MUSEUM, DJ HUSHPUPPY (ART SCHOOL) & CHRIS GEDDES (BELLE & SEBASTIAN), BREL, Retro soul, 21:00, 01:00, Free

STEREODOG, MR. LIVEWIRE & GARY CURLEY, CHINAWHITE, House, 22:00, £8 (£5)

VIBRATIONS, DJ MINGO-GO & DJ CASIO, CLASSIC GRElectro, 23:00, £6 (£4)

VICE, MARTIN BATE (XFM), THE CATHOUSE - LEVEL 2, Indie, party, 23:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP TAM COYLE, THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage, 21:00, Free

ROBBIE ROLEX & THE RADIO MAGNETIC SOUNDSYSTEM, THE GOAT, 20:00, Free HINT, BOOM MONK BEN, THE IVY, Ninja Tune, 21:00,

54 THE SKINNY NOVEMBER 07

£4, free b4 11pm

SCHOOL OF ART, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, Record Play-

erz in the bar, 23:00, £4 (£3)

Techno, 23:00, £6 (£3)

FREAKSCENE, JOHN, POLAR BAR (ABC), Indie, 23:00, £4

snapshot of the ever-evolving house blueprint, 23:00, £8, £5 b4 12am

THE FUNKY PRECEDENT, D_FADE, DUNCAN HARVEY & BOOM MONK BEN, SAINT JUDE’S, Hip hop, funk, soul

SUBCULTURE, HARRI & DOM, THE SUB CLUB, Weekly

(£3), free b4 11.30pm w/matric.

UNITED COLOURS OF AMERICA, ERIC MORRILLO, CJ & motown, 20:00, Free HOW’S YOUR PARTY?..., C2C, THE SUB CLUB, TurntabMACKINTOSH, THE ARCHES, House, 22:00, £25 lism, 23:00, £5, £3 b4 12am VOODOO, THE CATHOUSE, Under-18 club with metal, MIX GENERATOR, DJ FRAMIE, CATWALK, Classic, maemo & punk, 17:00, 21:30, £6 (£3) etal & alternative, 19:00, Free AERIALS DJS, BLOC, House & techno, 22:00, Free ON DEMDJ EUAN, THE SHED, Requests by text message DJ TOAST & MASH, THE BUNKER BAR, 21:00, Free BARRY, ERIC & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, All things, 22:30, £6 at this interactive club night, 22:30, £3 PLASTIC FUNK, MARK ROBB, TANIA & FRIENDS, (£5), free b4 11pm with PIYP DJ NAEEM & MIRRIRBAW, CHINAWHITE, Main room RnB BAMBOO, Funk, soul &, n roll, 22:30, £4 (£3), free b4 &, funky house in the Mao room, 22:00, £10 PAUL NEEDLES, THE GOAT, 20:00, Free SEIJI, OOFT! DJS, THE IVY, Sonar Kollectiv, 21:00, 01:00, Free

PAUL CAWLEY & KARIM THE PRO-VINYLIST, MACSORLEYS, pre-club music, 21:00, Free

11pm/12.30am w/matric

RADIOMAGNETIC, RADIOMAGNETIC DJS, GAZELLE,

acoustic gems, 20:00, Free

DISCO BADGER, DOMINIC MARTIN, KASH & MAX, BAMBOO, Classic house music all night long with other

boogie next door, 22:00, £5 (£3), free b4 10.30pm/ 12.30pm w/matric

OOFT PRECLUB, ALI & GRAEME (SKYROCKET), TERMINAL BAR, Electronic/dub, 21:00, 01:00, Free

PINUP NIGHTS, THE BRUNETTES, THE BEAT CLUB, Indie, punk, soul & electropop, 21:00, £5 (£4)

ROUTE 666, NICOLA WALKER, CATWALK, 19:00, Free SOUND MUSEUM, DJ HUSHPUPPY (ART SCHOOL) & CHRIS GEDDES (BELLE & SEBASTIAN), BREL, Retro soul, 21:00, 01:00, Free

SPARKIES, MARK ROBB, CAFÉ RIO, Jazz, funk, 20:00, Free THE STATLER PROJECT EP LAUNCH, THE STATLER PROJECT, BLACKFRIARS, Local b23:00, £5 STEREODOG, MR. LIVEWIRE & GARY CURLEY, CHINAWHITE, House, 22:00, £8 (£5)

TOXIC POP, GEOFF M, JUNIOR CAMPOS & MAX, BAMBOO, House music, hip hop & lounge, 22:00, £5, free b4

11pm/12.30am students

VIBRATIONS, DJ MINGO-GO & DJ CASIO, CLASSIC GRElectro, 23:00, £6 (£4)

VICE, MARTIN BATE (XFM), THE CATHOUSE - LEVEL 2, Indie, party, 23:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP TAM COYLE, THE BUNKER BAR, Vintage, 21:00, Free

ROBBIE ROLEX & THE RADIO MAGNETIC SOUNDSYSTEM, THE GOAT, 20:00, Free PLASTIC SOUL, THE IVY, 21:00, 01:00, Free DARIO BERNADI, METROPOLITAN, Electronic disco & soul, 21:00, Free

SAT 10 NOV ABC SATURDAYS, GERRY LYONS, ABC1, Soul, punk, & indie dance, 23:00, £7 (£5), free b4

11.30pm w/matric.

ABC SATURDAYS, DAVID SINCLAIR (KILLER KITSCH), ABC2, Electro, house & pop, 23:00, £7 (£5), free b4

11.30pm w/matric.

AUTOKRAT, ALEX FISHER & STU BRAZEWELL, ADLIB, Techno & electro, 23:30, £2

BAD ROBOT, LOOSE JOINTS & STEVIE ELEMENTS, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, to techno & breakbeats, 23:00, £6

(£5), £2 GSA, free after 12am

DECODANCE, GUESTS, CLASSIC GRGlamorous house, 23:00, £8

DIVINE!, MR. DIVINE & HUSHPUPPY, THE VIC BAR, Northern soul, funk, ska & mod tunes, 23:00, £6 (£5) DON’T FIGHT IT FEEL IT, MAGGIE MAYS, Indie, & roll, psyche, 23:00, £5 FREEFALL, THE ARCHES, Hard dance, trance, 22:00, £19 GLAMORAMA, LIL RICH, BOHO, 90s house, 80s, RnB & chart, 21:30, £8 GROOVEJET, MAS, house & RnB mix, 23:00, £7 (£5) HIP DROP, ROBBIE ROLEX & NEL, BREL, Funk, soul, electro & disco, 21:00, 01:00, Free HOME COOKIN’, BELO, Urban music showcase, 22:00, £7, free b4 11pm

BAR, Disco electro, 23:00, £4 (£3)

& funk, 21:00, £5, free b4 10.30pm/12.30am students

RUBBERMENSCH,

ABC2, A night for indie lovers, 23:00,

GARAGE, 23:00, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP

RICHARD LEVINSON, BLANKET, RnB, 23:00, £5 (£3) COLD NIGHT SONG, THE GOAT, Guests & DJs play

Trance, hardstyle, techno, acid, schranz, 21:00, £10 NOJ, POLAR BAR (ABC), No Music Policy, 23:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. OLD SCHOOL, GORDIE & JACK, THE BUFF CLUB, Old school tunes, 22:30, £6

HOMEGROWN, STEVIE SOLE MIDDLETON, DOMENIC MARTIN & SCOTTIE B, BAMBOO, House & smooth RnB, jazz

SUN 4 NOV CLUB PRIORY: RETOX ROOMS, DJ

01:00, Free

INFEXIOUS, MARK E.G., DARK BY DESIGN, CLUB CLINIC,

RECORD PLAYERZ, HI-FI SEAN & HUSHPUPPY, THE VIC

THE YARD DJS, THE TWISTED WHEEL, Dub & reggae, 21:00,

18:00, Free

HORRORSHOW, CRAIG MCGEE, FIREWATER, Indie, punk, electro, soul, britpop, 21:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

Funk, soul & latin grooves, 20:00, Free

£4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm w/matric. SKINT, DJ BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, Metal, hip hop &, 23:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP

KILLER DILLER DJS, THE TWISTED WHEEL, & roll, 14:00,

Jazz, funk, soul, 23:00, £5

THE THURSDAY CLUB, GERRY LYONS & BRIAN, THE

UP THE RACKET, DJ TOAST, FIREWATER, Indie, soul, britpop, punk, 16:00, £4 (£3), free b4 10.30pm ZERO THURSDAYS, DJ NORMSKI, BOHO, Funk, electro & house, 21:30, £3 CJ, THE BUNKER BAR, Grunge & new, 21:00, Free KEVIN STEVENS, METROPOLITAN, soul, 21:00, Free

FRI 9 NOV ABC FRIDAYS, EUAN NEILSON, ABC1,

KARBON SATURDAYS, KEV MCFARLANE, STEPHEN LEE & MISO, CYLOB, DIRTY HOSPITAL DJS, JACE SYNTAX, THE IVY, Rephlex, acid, rave, techno, 20:30, 01:00, £6

NU-SCHOOL,

THE BUFF CLUB, Fresh northern soul, jazz & funk featuring live percussion, downstairs, 22:30, £6

ONE MORE TUNE, ELLIOT CASTRO, BOUFF MYLRE & CHIKUMA, BLACKFRIARS, Electro & techno, 23:00, £8 (£4) PLATINUM, ERIC SNEO, PEDRO DELGARDO, THE CLINIC, Techno, trance, 22:00, £10

ROUTE 666, CIARAN O’TOOLE, CATWALK, Classic & cult, 19:00, Free

SUBCULTURE, STACEY PULLEN, THE SUB CLUB, Weekly snap-

shot of the ever-evolving house blueprint, 23:00, £8, £5 b4 12am ING DUCK, Bass, percussion & scratching, 21:00, Free UTTER GUTTER, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Cock, & frock b4 11pm ART OF PARTIES, INSTITUBES TERROR CLUB FIRST LEG: fancy dress, 23:00, £10 (£8) JUNK, MARKY MARK, THE BUFF CLUB, Jazz & funk featur- SURKIN, ORGASMIC DAS GLOW, NAOMI FROM VEGAS, THE FERRY, Retro, lounge, swing, rat-pack, 21:30, ing live percussion by Duffy, 23:00, £3, free w/matric LONDON, THE ARCHES, 22:30, £8 02:00, £10 (£8) OPTIMO, JD TWITCH & JG WILKES, THE SUB CLUB, Maxi- BALLBREAKER, BARRY & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, & metal, VOODOO, THE CATHOUSE, Under-18 club with metal, emo 22:30, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am PIYP & punk, 17:00, 21:30, £6 (£3) mum, 23:00, £6 (£5) BOOGIE DOWN, STEWART REID, BLUU, Jazz, disco & ON THE SABBATH, CIARAN O’TOOLE & KIERAN ELDJ TOAST & MASH, THE BUNKER BAR, 21:00, Free house sounds, 22:00, £5, free b4 11pm LIOT, CATWALK, 19:00, Free BARRY, ERIC & BILLY, THE CATHOUSE, All things, 22:30, £6 CAMOUFLAGE, CYMBOL, DEE MOND, NINJATECH- (£5), free b4 11pm with PIYP SPANK, THE CATHOUSE, punk & dance, 23:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP NO, SOUNDHAUS, Techno, electro, breaks, 23:00, £8 (£6) DJ NAEEM & MIRRIRBAW, CHINAWHITE, Main room RnB &, TRICKY DISCO, JON MANCINI & KRIS KEEGAN, KAR- COMPUTELOVE, THE MIXING ROOMS, Electronic sounds, funky house in the Mao room, 22:00, £10 20:00, Free BON, House, 23:00, £5 PAUL NEEDLES, THE GOAT, 20:00, Free WE LOVE SUNDAYS, JIM DA BEST, BOHO, Party tunes & ELECTROBALL, KARBON, 80’s, nu-wave, & punk, 22:30, RECORD PLAYERZ, THE IVY, hip hop, 21:00, 01:00, Free £tbc floor fillers, 21:30, £3 PAUL CAWLEY & KARIM THE PRO-VINYLIST, MACSORLEYS, AARON PETRIE, METROPOLITAN, Chill house, 21:00, Free FLIRTINI FRIDAYS, JIM DA BEST, BOHO, Party tunes & pre-club music, 21:00, Free floor fillers, 21:30, £6 MON 5 NOV BURN, NORMSKI & ZEUS, THE BUFF SCOTT STRACHAN, METROPOLITAN, funk, 21:00, Free CLUB, Glasgow institition playing underground, 23:00, £5 FLUID, LISA LITTLEWOOD, MAS, Funky house, 23:00, £5 KILLER DILLER DJS, THE TWISTED WHEEL, 14:00, 18:00, Free FORTIFIED SESSIONS, ELECTRIC ELIMINATORS, BEN(£3), free for pub/club workers FRIDAY STREET DJS, THE TWISTED WHEEL, Northern soul & FRESH, THE POLO LOUNGE, Popular gay venue with house GA, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Dubstep, 23:00, £8 (£5) mod killers, 21:00, 01:00, Free FREAKMENOOVERS, RUST BAR, Early doors serving of & indie, 23:00, £5 SUN 11 NOV CLUB PRIORY: RETOX ROOMS, DJ hip hop, funk, RnB & soul, 21:00, Free POPTIMISM/ROCKTIMISM, DJ ANDY & DJ DEC, THE RICHARD LEVINSON, BLANKET, RnB, 23:00, £5 (£3)

IT SURE BEATS WAITIN’, JUMBLESALE SOUNDS, THE FLY-

Genre mash-up, 23:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm w/matric.

GARAGE, Pop &, 23:00, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with

FREAKMENOOVERS, FREAKMENOOVERS DJS, BLAN-

PIYP

KET, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts, 23:00, £6 (£4)

TUE 6 NOV ALL STAR, ANDY WILSON & DJ KASH,

HOME OF THE GROOVES, MARK ROBB, MAGGIE MAYS,

COLD NIGHT SONG,

THE GOAT, Guests & DJs play acous-

tic gems, 20:00, Free

LISTINGS

CRASH TEST HUMANS/AXIS OFF BALANCE, FRESHMESS, Two new pieces from the acclaimed street dance company, WED 14 NOV THU 15 NOV 20:00, £13/8

THE PERSIAN REVOLUTION, 30 BIRD PRODUCTIONS, A modern day take on the gripping events surrounding the establishment of the first secular parliament in the Middle East., WED 21 NOV SAT 24 NOV 20:00, £13/8

MEETING JOE STRUMMER, MIDDLE GROUND THEATRE COMPANY, Revival of Fringe First-winning com-

edy that fiollows the lives of two men whose lives are transformed by the punk icon, TUE 27 NOV WED 28 NOV 20:00, £13/8

GILMOREHILL G12, THE BREAKFAST CLUB,

NARC PRODUCTIONS, Stage adaptation of 80s brat pack movie, THU 1 NOV 19:30, £5 CORRYVRECKAN, YDANCE, Contemporary dance inspired by the whirlpool, MON 5 NOV 14:00, £2 THE MYTH OF METH, JERICHO HOUSE, A play performed by rehab inmates drawing on their experiences, SAT 10 NOV FRI 16 NOV 19:30, call 01475 741 950 THE COUNTRY WIFE, STAG, Bawdy Restoration farce, WED 14 NOV 19:30, £6/4

KING’S THEATRE GLASGOW, ASPECTS OF

LOVE, ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, David Essex stars in

21:00, £6/£3/£1

IMPROBABBLE, BILLY BONKERS; PETER AITCHINSON; LEE KIRK; BERNARD MCLAUGHLIN; AUSTIN LOW; BILLY KIRKWOOD; DAVE HEFFRON, THE OUTHOUSE,

by Milican, one of the best female comics on the circuit.,

SUN 4 NOV MICHAEL REDMOND’S SUNDAY

up each Saturday from the best of the circuit, 21:00, £5.00

SAT 3 NOV JONGLEURS, DOMINIC FRISBY; PAUL LEURS, 19:00, £14.00

SERVICE, MICHAEL REDMOND; PLUS MORE TBA, THE

FRI 2 NOV JONGLEURS, DOMINIC FRISBY; PAUL LEURS, 19:00, £11.00

CHOWDRY; ANDY ASKINS; GARY DELANEY, JONG-

SUN 4 NOV WHERE YOU FROM?, LENNY HENRY, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL THEATRE, The once alternative, now

positively mainstream TV comic takes his show on the road., 19:30, £14.50- £22.50 (£11.50- £17.50)

WHOSE LUNCH IS IT ANYWAY?, THE STAND PLAYERS, THE STLunch time improv from Stu & Gary, 13:00, Free

THU 8 NOV OWEN O’NEILL, THE STWriter & actor, this multi-talented Irish man brings his skills back to the mic, 19:30, £7/£6 HERESY, MC RICK MOLLJEKYLL & HYDE, Dark comedy at most offensive, 20:30, £3.00

FRI 9 NOV JONGLEURS, PIERRE HOLLINS; NICK

DOODY; IAN COPPINGER; NINIA BENJAMIN, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £11.00

SAT 10 NOV ALAN CARR, EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE, Star of the Friday Night Project’s solo show., 20:00, £19.00

JONGLEURS, PIERRE HOLLINS; NICK DOODY; IAN COPPINGER; NINIA BENJAMIN, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £14.00

FRANK SKINNER LIVE, FRANK SKINNER, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL THEATRE, Fifty years old & still funny? Find out for

yourselves!, 19:30, £20.00

BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, ALAN ANDERSON; PLUS MORE TBA, MAGGIE MAY’S, 20:00, £8/£6 JONGLEURS, SARAH MILICAN; ALEX BOARDMAN; adopted Scot (actually Canadian) continues to tour his TONY GERRARD, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £15.00 show., 20:00, £9/£6 WED 7 NOV TINSELWORM, BILLY BAILEY, CLYDE AUDI- THU 29 NOV BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, SCOTT AGNEW; ALAN ANDERSON; PLUS MORE TBA, CAPITOL, TORIUM, SECC, Stadium style comedy from Bailey, possibly ST20:30, £5/£4/£1

MON 5 NOV TOM STADE, TOM STADE, THE STThe

featuring a huge, worm., 20:00, £25.00

THU 8 NOV BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, SCOTT

AGNEW; ALAN ANDERSON; PLUS MORE TBA, CAPITOL, New comedians & professional acts try out new things to make you laugh, 20:00, £4/£2

JONGLEURS, MILES CRAWFORD; MICHAEL SMILEY; IAN COPPINGER; SMUG ROBERTS, JONGLEURS, 19:00,

Gary, 13:00, Free

SCOTT CAPURRO, THE STAs well as being a talented

SIMPSON; PAPA CJ; MARK MAIER, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £11.00

SAT 17 NOV JONGLEURS, ROB COLLINS; JUNIOR

DESIRE, STRATHCLYDE THEATRE GROUP, Tennessee

SIMPSON; PAPA CJ, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £14.00 SUN 18 NOV WHOSE LUNCH IS IT ANYWAY?, THE STAND PLAYERS, THE STLunch time improv from Stu &

William’s atmospheric play on sexual tension in New Orlean’s French Quarter, SAT 17 NOV 19:30, £9/3

Gary, 13:00, Free

TUE 20 NOV ELECTRIC MOUSE, JIM PARK; MORE

political satire is still relevant today, MON 12 NOV 19:30, £9/3

shows with titles that include the name ‘Milton Jones’, 19:30, £7/£6

student drama, FROM 26/11/07, FRI 2 NOV, various

Dark comedy at most offensive, 20:30, £3.00

Wilson in Westminster satire, MON 5 NOV 19:30, £22 GRUMPY OLD WOMEN, Feminine hormonal comedy with Britt Ekland & some soap stars, SUN 11 NOV SAT 17 NOV 19:30, £23 plus concessions DONKEYS’ YEARS, Michael Frayn’s hit West End comedy, MON 12 NOV SAT 24 NOV 19:30, £22.50 GODSPELL, STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, Broadway smash musical, MON 19 NOV 19:30, £26.50/9.50 ROMANTIC COMEDY, Housewives choice Tom Conti stars, FROM 26/11/07, UNTIL 3/11/07, 19:30, £23.50

TRON THEATRE, TAMBURLAINE MUST DIE,

GLASGAY! IN ASSOCIATION WITH TRON THEATRE,

TBA, BLACK BO’S, Mixed fresh comedy, 20:30, Free MILTON JONES, THE STWriter & performer of many radio

THU 22 NOV HERESY, MC RICK MOLLJEKYLL & HYDE, FRI 23 NOV JONGLEURS, PAUL B

EDWARDS;TOMMY CAMPBELL; STU WHO?; DOUGIE DUNLOP, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £11.00 SAT 24 NOV JONGLEURS, PAUL B EDWARDS;TOMMY CAMPBELL; STU WHO?; DOUGIE DUNLOP, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £14.00 SUN 25 NOV WHOSE LUNCH IS IT ANYWAY?, THE STAND PLAYERS, THE STLunch time improv from Stu &

LEURS, 18:30, £45.00

CHAEL SMILEY; IAN COPPINGER; SMUG ROBERTS, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £12.00

SAT 10 NOV BUMPER VALUE COMEDY MEAL DEAL, GARY DELANEY; VLADIMIR MCTAVISH; ALAN ANDERSON, MAGGIE MAY’S, Features 5 acts & food, 19:00, £20/£18

JONGLEURS, SMUG ROBERTS; MILES CRAWFORD; MICHAEL SMILEY; DALISO CHAPONDA, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £15.00

COMEDY @ THE STATE, TBA, THE STATE BAR, Different line BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, GARY DELANEY; VLADIMIR MCTAVISH; ALAN ANDERSON, MAGGIE MAY’S, Features

THU 15 NOV HERESY, MC RICK MOLLJEKYLL & HYDE, SUN 11 NOV SCOTT CAPURRO’S PREMATURE GIFT, FRI 16 NOV JONGLEURS, ROB COLLINS; JUNIOR

JONGLEURS, GREG DAVIES; TONY HENDRIKS; SARAH MILICAN; BRIAN HIGGINS, JONGLEURS, 18:30, £30.00 FRI 30 NOV JONGLEURS, GREG DAVIES; TONY HENDRIKS; SARAH MILICAN; BRIAN HIGGINS, JONG-

FRI 9 NOV JONGLEURS, MILES CRAWFORD; MI-

Dark comedy at most offensive, 20:30, £3.00

STAND PLAYERS, THE STLunch time improv from Stu &

20:00, £4/£2

£8.00

THE DIRT UNDER THE CARPET, A PLAY, A PIE & A PINT,

THEATRE ROYAL, WHIPPING IT UP, TV’s Richard

ics on the circuit., 19:00, £8.00

19:00, £12.00 JONGLEURS, NICK WILTY; JASON ROUSE; SIMON CLAYTON; MANDY KNIGHT, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £15.00 SAT 24 NOV BUMPER VALUE COMEDY MEAL DEAL, BUMPER VALUE COMEDY MEAL DEAL, KEIR MCALLIS- ALAN ANDERSON; PLUS MORE TBA, MAGGIE MAY’S, TER; ALAN ANDERSON, MAGGIE MAY’S, Features 5 acts & 19:00, £20/£18 COMEDY @ THE STATE, TBA, THE STATE BAR, Different line food, 19:00, £20/£18

5 acts without the food, 20:00, £8/£6

Prize winning author James Kelman, WED 7 NOV FRI 23 NOV 19:30, £10/6 ENDGAME, THEATRE WORKSHOP, Touring production of Beckett’s twentieth century masterpiece featuring an ingenious kinetic set by Sharmanka, WED 21 NOV SUN 11 NOV 19:30, £9/6

LEURS, Headlined by Milican, one of the best female com-

food, 20:00, £8/£6

PIE & A PINT, Gothic drama from Dean Buckley, MON 5

ARCHES THEATRE COMPANY, New play by Booker

JONGLEURS, SARAH MILICAN; STEVE HARRIS, JONG-

BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, KEIR MCALLISTER; ALAN ANDERSON, MAGGIE MAY’S, Features 5 acts without the

circuit, 21:00, £5.00

laugh meister & writer, Capurro starred in The Phantom Menace as a two headed alien., 19:30, £9/£7

THE ARCHES, THEY MAKE THESE NOISES,

NER, CLYDE AUDITORIUM, SECC, Ten years off the circuit,

BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, SCOTT AGNEW; ALAN ANDERSON; PLUS MORE TBA, CAPITOL, 20:00, £4/£2 FRI 23 NOV JONGLEURS, SARAH MILICAN; ALEX BOARDMAN; TONY GERRARD, JONGLEURS, Headlined

BAR, Different line up each Saturday from the best of the

ORAN MOR, BETWEEN DOG & WOLF, A PLAY, A

AUTUMN SEASON, GLASGOW ACTING ACADEMY,

CONTACT CHARLOTTE@SKINNYMAG.CO.UK TO FIND OUT HOW TO APPLY.

Skinner shows that age hasn’t tamed him., 20:00, £20.00

JONGLEURS, NICK WILTY; JASON ROUSE; SIMON THE THURSDAY SHOW, JOE ROONEY; KEIR MCALLIS- CLAYTON; MANDY KNIGHT, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £8.00 TER; MARTIN MCALLISTER, THE STHosted by Joe Heenan, SAT 3 NOV COMEDY @ THE STATE, TBA, THE STATE £3.00

up each Saturday from the best of the circuit, 21:00, £5.00

AN ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST, STRATHCLYDE THEATRE GROUP, Dariop Fo’s sixties

ARE YOU A DESIGNER/PHOTOGRAPHER/ILLUSTRATOR AND WANT YOUR WORK SHOWN HERE?

20:00, £4/£2

TUE 13 NOV SCOTT CAPURRO’S PREMATURE GIFT,

RAMSHORN THEATRE, A STREETCAR NAMED

SURVEY 07, 10 NOV - 18 DEC, RSA, THE MOUND, EDINBURGH, FREE

JEKYLL & HYDE, Dark comedy at most offensive, 20:30,

SUN 11 NOV WHOSE LUNCH IS IT ANYWAY?, THE

Comedy thriller, MON 12 NOV various, 100TH PLAY, A PLAY, A PIE & A PINT, A surprise, FLEETO, A PLAY, A PIE & A PINT, Paddy Cuneen’s verse play about Glasgow’s soi-disant knife culture, MON 26 NOV UNTIL 3/11/07, various,

WWW.JESSICAHARRISON.CO.UK

THU 22 NOV FRANK SKINNER LIVE, FRANK SKIN-

AGNEW; ALAN ANDERSON; PLUS MORE TBA, CAPITOL,

this romantic musical, SAT 17 NOV 19:30, £30/13 THE PRODUCERS, MEL BROOKS, Musical version of the classic comedy, TUE 6 NOV 20:00, £36 -10 SLEEPING BEAUTY, Panto, FROM 30/11/07, various, £21.50/6.50

NOV various,

You can see more of Jessica’s work as part of SURVEY 07 at the Royal Scottish Academy, an exhibition celebrating 20 years of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.

THU 1 NOV BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, SCOTT

MONTH; RICHARD COUGHLAN; DEE CUSTANCE,

CHOWDRY; ANDY ASKINS; GARY DELANEY, JONG-

Tam Dean Burns’ hit adaptation of Luke Burns novel about a mystical rent boy, UNTIL 10/11/07, 19:30, £12 plus concessions THE DARK PRINCE, WAVE THEATRE COMPANY, Rehearsed reading of a new Annie George drama about a young Asian boxer, SAT 3 NOV SAT 17 NOV 19:30, £3 ST NICHOLAS, CONOR MACPHERSON, Supernatural tale of sex, vampires & theatre critics, TUE 13 NOV SAT 10 NOV 19:30, £3

Jessica says: “I am interested in the edge to an interior, the division between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the fearful and the feared, the partition, the mouth into the other.”

THU 1 NOV HERESY, GUS TAWSE; ANDY LEAR-

Preview of Douglas Maxwell’s Scottish Western, THU 29 NOV 19:30, £5/3.50

TIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND/BURNT GOODS,

On finishing her first degree in Fine Art, Jessica stayed on at ECA to specialise in sculpture. She is now undertaking a practice-based PhD in sculpture, working mainly from her studio in Portobello.

GLASGOW

Improvisation & sketches on the far side of probability, 20:00, £4/£3

CITIZENS THEATRE, VENUS AS A BOY, NA-

This month it is our pleasure to showcase the work of artist Jessica Harrison. Although she only graduated from Edinburgh College of Art two years ago, Jessica has already had her work exhibited at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art and the Truman Brewery on London’s Brick Lane.

EDINBURGH

BLOOD COUNTRY, TRAVERSE THEATRE COMPANY,

GLASGOW

JESSICA HARRISON

COMEDY

LISTINGS

some kind on her ukulele, FRI 2 NOV SAT 3 NOV 19:30, £13/8 FLIGHT PATH, OUT OF JOINT & BUSH THEATRE, Young playwright David Watson’s tale of brotherly love in a broken home, TUE 6 NOV SAT 10 NOV various, £13/8

SCOTT CAPURRO, THE STTop Fringe comedian continues his tour, 19:30, £9/£7

WHAT’S GOING ON? GET YOUR VENUE’S EVENTS LISTED FOR FREE BY SENDING INFO TO LISTINGS@SKINNYMAG. CO.UK WANT TO ADVERTISE? GET IN TOCH WITH SALES@SKINNYMAG.CO.UK OR 01314674630 FOR PRICES

THU 15 NOV BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, SCOTT

AGNEW; ALAN ANDERSON; PLUS MORE TBA, CAPITOL, New comedians & professional acts try out new things to make you laugh, 20:00, £4/£2

JONGLEURS, STEVE HARRIS; KARL SPAIN; DANNY JAMES; AL PITCHER, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £8.00 FRI 16 NOV JONGLEURS, DANNY JAMES; STEVE HARRIS; KARL SPAIN; AL PITCHER, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £12.00

SAT 17 NOV COMEDY @ THE STATE, TBA, THE STATE BAR, Different line up each Saturday from the best of the

circuit, 21:00, £5.00

JONGLEURS, DANNY JAMES; STEVE HARRIS; KARL SPAIN; AL PITCHER, JONGLEURS, 19:00, £15.00 BUMPER VALUE COMEDY, ROWAN CAMPBELL; ALAN ANDERSON, MAGGIE MAY’S, Features 5 acts without the food, 20:00, £8/£6

BUMPER VALUE COMEDY MEAL DEAL, ROWAN CAMPBELL; ALAN ANDERSON, MAGGIE MAY’S, Features 5 acts & food, 19:00, £20/£18

Gary, 13:00, Free

TUE 27 NOV ROB DEERING, THE STDeering appeared on the weakest link & didn’t get a single question wrong. His comedy is also spot on., 19:30, £8/£6

THU 29 NOV HERESY, MC RICK MOLLJEKYLL & HYDE, Dark comedy at most offensive, 20:30, £3.00

JONGLEURS, JANEY GODLEY; COLIN COLE; SIMON CLAYTON; PAUL SINHA, JONGLEURS, 18:30, £25.00 FRI 30 NOV JONGLEURS, JANEY GODLEY; COLIN COLE; SIMON CLAYTON; PAUL SINHA, JONGLEURS, 18:30, £35.00

DUNDEE

Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe is confronted SAT 3 NOV JUST LAUGH, NEIL DOUGAN; KEVIN by one of his own fictional creations, SAT 3 NOV SAT 17 HAYES; NIALL BROWN, FAT SAM’S NIGHT CLUB, With comNOV 20:00, £14/10 pere Bruce Fummey, 20:00, £9.00 THE SOLDIER’S TALE, VAN DYCK & COMPANY, FausFRI 16 NOV DANCE MONKEY BOY DANCE, RAYtian musical theatre set in the First World War, FRI 16 MOND MEARNS; PAUL PIRIE; ALLEN CHALMERS, NOV 20:00, £14/10 DUNDEE REP, Improv, stand up & high jinks, 23:00, £10/£8

EETING BEAUTY: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE SPELL GOES WRONG, TRON THEATRE COMPANY, The

TUE 27 NOV FRANK SKINNER LIVE, FRANK SKIN-

Tron’s panto reworks the classic fairy tale, FROM FRI 30 NOV £16.50 / 6.50

that age hasn’t tamed him., 20:00, £20.00

www.skinnymag.co.uk

NER, CAIRD HALL, Ten years off the circuit, Skinner shows

NOVEMBER 07 THE SKINNY

LISTINGS ART

EDINBURGH

INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D’ECOSSE, GROUP SHOW, ECOURBANISME, Three artists from France, Poland & Britain address the relationaship between man & nature using photography, 20-SEP, 27-OCT, 09:30, 18:30(Mon-Fri), 13:00(Sat), Mon-Sat, Free

INVERLEITH HOUSE, COLLABORATION,

SMITH/STEWART, Sculpture, film & installation from internationally renowned Glasgow-based artists, FRI 2 NOV 20-JAN, 10:00, 17:30, Tue-Sun, Free

NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLSOLO

SHOW, JOAN EARDLEY, Exhaustive retrospective of the painter’s works, drawing & on canvas, TUE 6 NOV 13-JAN, 10:00, 18:00, Mon-Sun, Free

GROUP SHOW, JERWOOD PRIZE 2007: JEWELLERY, Discover a diverse & exciting collection of contemporary pieces that push the boundaries of what jewellery is today., 12-OCT, 2-MAR, 10:00, 17:00, Mon-Sun, £6(£5) GROUP SHOW, COMMANDO COUNTRY, Examining Scotland’s key role in forming Britain’s famous Commando forces, UNTIL, 1-FEB, 09:45, 16:45, MonSun, Free

OPEN EYE GALLERY, GROUP SHOW, GROUP SHOW, Including unsettling paintings by Heather

Nevay from 20 Oct, OPEN ALL YEAR, OPEN ALL YEAR, 10:00, 18:00(mon-fri)/16:00(sat), Mon-Sat, Free

OWL & LION, GROUP SHOW, IN WITH A BANG, showcase of a range of emerging artists in a new gallery, studio & retail space dedicated to expanding the traditional notions of fine art & design., FRI 2 NOV THU 22 NOV 10:00, 18:Mon-Sun, Free

PORTRAIT GALLERY, SOLO SHOW, TELFORD: FATHER OF MODERN ENGINEERING, artists locally & internationally, 2-OCT, SUN 25 NOV 10:00, 17:MonSun, £4(£3)

QUEEN’S GALLERY, VARIOUS ARTISTS, BRUEGEL TO RUBENS: MASTERS OF FLEMISH PAINTING,

The first exhibition ever mounted of Flemish paintings in the Royal Collection, 28-SEP, 6-APR, 09:30, 18:00, Mon-Sun, £5 (£4.50)

ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY, VICTORIA CROW OBE RSA, PLANT MEMORY, Examining the symbolic history & imagery of plants, 5-OCT, SUN 4 NOV 10:00, 17:00/19:00(thur), Mon-Sun, Free

SURVEY, EDINBURGH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP MEMBERS, Celebrating 20 years of the Edinburgh

Sculpture wokshop, SAT 10 NOV 18-DEC, 10:00, 17: Mon-Sun, Free

SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, SIR BASIL SPENCE, BACK TO

THE FUTURE, Retrospective of the Scottish architect, 19-OCT, 10-FEB, 10:00, 17:00, Mon-Sun, £6(£4) SOLO SHOW, THE LEGACY OF TIM STEAD , The legacy of artist, designer & poet Tim Stead, including sculpture, poetry & furniture designs, 1-OCT, 5-JAN, 10:00, 18:00, Mon-Sat, Free

STILLS, 27-JUL, 28-OCT, 11:00, 18:00, Mon-Sun, Free

TALBOT RICE, MONIKA SOSNOWSKA, SOLO

SHOW, an exciting new installation for the gallery from the Polish artist fresh from representing her country at the 2007 Venice Biennale, 27-OCT, 8-DEC, 10:00, 17:00, Tue-Sat, Free

TOTAL KUNST, SOLO SHOW, MIKE BOW-

DIDGE: LOST & FOUND, The artist uses found objects to extemporise large assemblages, structures which evolve from a direct interaction with the materials at h29-OCT, SUN 11 NOV 101:Mon-Sun, Free

SOLO SHOW, LUCY MACDONALD & GREGORY BARROW, undergraduate painters based in Glasgow, use varied platforms to explore relationships between painting, the image & the real, MON 12 NOV SUN 25 NOV 101:Mon-Sun, Free

TRAVERSE THEATRE, REV. STUART JOHN MCCAFFER, New solo show, 7-OCT, 1-DEC, 09:30(Mon-

Fri, 10:30(Sat), 00:00(Mon-Wed), 01:00(Thu-Sat), Mon-Sat, Free

GLASGOW

THE ARCHES, GREGOR LOUDEN, IF DE-

STROYED STILL TRUE, Graffiti-influenced work, 6-OCT, THU 8 NOV 10:00(mon-sat)/12:00(Sun), 22:00, MonSun, Free

THE BURRELL COLLECTION, JOSEPH

CRAWHALL, CRAWHALL 2007: REYNARD THE FOX, features ten watercolours illustrating the medieval fable of Reynard the Fox, 21-OCT, 4-FEB, 10:00(mon,

52 THE SKINNY NOVEMBER 07

thur, sat)/11:00(Fri/Sun), 17:00, Mon-Sun, Free

Tue-Sat, Free

CCA, DAVID LEDDY, VERROCHIO, sound art instal-

STREET LEVEL PHOTOWORKS, ANDREW

lation specially created for a rarely used floating glass corridor on the top floor of the CCA., 14-OCT, SUN 25 NOV 11:00 AM, 18:00, Mon-Fri, Free

collaboration with Q Gallery as part of Glasgay, 14-OCT, WED 28 NOV 12:00, 17:00, Thur-Sat, Free

PRINTER, TRY TO DO THINGS WE ALL CAN UNDERSTin

COLLINS GALLERY, GROUP SHOW, SEEING

STUDIO WAREHOUSE, 100 EASTVALE PLACE, SOLO SHOW, TOM LEMKE, Solo exhibition by

vestigating the use of a red dye produced in the Vale of Leven, 7-OCT, SUN 18 NOV 12:00 PM, 17:00, Mon-Sat, Free

established German photographer, based in Dusseldrof, 28-OCT, MON 5 NOV 12:00, 18:00, Wed-Sun, Free

RED: SCOTLAND’ S EXOTIC TEXTILES HERITAGE, In-

COMPASS GALLERY, GROUP SHOW, SCOT-

TISH MODERN MASTERS, A mixed exhibition by regular gallery exhibitors, 11-OCT, 12-JUL, 10:00 AM, 17:30, Mon-Sat, Free

GLASGOW GALLERY OF MODERN ART, GROUP SHOW, THE CUTTING EDGE: SCOTLAND’ S CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS, a rare opportunity to

see the very best of innovative contemporary Scottish crafts., 21-SEP, MON 26 NOV 10:00(mon-thu)/11:00(frisun), 17:00(fri-wed)/20:00(thur), Mon-Sun, Free

GROUP SHOW, WHAT I REALLY WANT FOR CHRISTMAS, Limited edition prints & books by a variety of artists, on sale as the perfect Christmas presents, SAT 10 NOV 24-DEC, 10:00, 17:30, Tue-Sat, Free

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, GROUP

SHOW, FINE ART STAFF SHOW, Work by The Glasgow School of Art staff, 6-OCT, SUN 4 NOV 10:00, 21:00(Mon-Thur), 19:00(Fri), 17:00(Sat, Sun), MonSun, Free SOLO SHOW, SUSANNE NIELSON, Work by The Glasgow School of Art staff, 27-OCT, SUN 18 NOV 10:00, 21:00(Mon-Thur), 19:00(Fri), 17:00(Sat, Sun), MonSun, Free

GROUP SHOW, SANDY SMITH & ANDREW CATTANACH, Exhibition of new works & performance from

dance thriller., THU 1 NOV SAT 3 NOV 19:30, £27.50/5.50

WORLD VIEW TOUR 2007, RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY, Acclaimed UK dance company perform three works, WED 7 NOV FRI 9 NOV 19:30, £24/7

FINGERPRINT/BRINK, RICHARD ALSTON DANCE COMPANY, Scottish premiere of two new dance pieces with music including Bach’s Tocatta & Japanese Tango (?!), TUE 13 NOV 19:30, £15/7 IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, SCOTTISH OPERA, Rossini’s comic opera, 23/11/07 & 28/11/07, 19:15, £58/11 SERAGLIO, SCOTTISH OPERA, One of Mozart’s lesser known scores, SAT 24 NOV THU 29 NOV 19:15, £58/11

resident SWG3 artists, SUN 11 NOV MON 19 NOV 12:00, EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE, WHITE CHRIST18:00, Wed-Sun, Free SOLO SHOW, DERYCK WALKER, Installation by Glasgow MAS, Festive musical with Irving Berlin score, FROM born fashion designer, SUN 25 NOV 1-DEC, 12:00, 18:00, 19/11/2007, 19:30, various KING’S THEATRE EDINBURGH, HOBSON’S Wed-Sun, Free CHOICE, Classic comedy, TUE 6 NOV SAT 10 NOV variUBU, GROUP SHOW, THE AESTHETICS OF SPACE, ous, £22/7.50 New work by four artists which explores the boundaries HOT FLUSH, Menopausal musical with Rula Lenska, MON between art & architecture, MON 19 NOV 16-DEC, by 12 NOV SAT 17 NOV various, £25/9.50 appointment,

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, LIVING QUARTERS, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE COMPANY, A returning war

THEATRE

EDINBURGH

BRUNTON THEATRE, MY REAL WAR 1914/?,

TWO’ S COMPANY, One man show based on real life

hero finds his home life complex in this Brian Friel premiere, UNTIL 17/11/07, various, £25/ £12 concessions

ST COLUMBA’S CHURCH BLACKHALL,

BEYOND A JOKE, ST COLUMBA’ S DRAMATIC SOCIETY, Am dram, 11/21/07, FRI 23 NOV 19:30, £5/3 THEATRE WORKSHOP, ENDGAME, THEATRE WORKSHOP, Touring production of Beckett’s twentieth

letters home from the Western Front, THU 1 NOV 19:30, £10.50/8.50 CINDERELLA, LIAM RUDDEN, Panto from amoonlighting Edinburgh Evening News arts editor, FROM 24/11/07, various, £12.75/9.75

century masterpiece featuring an ingenious kinetic set by Sharmanka, THU 1 NOV 3/11/07, 6/11/07 & 7/11/07, 19:30, 1 2/3

SHOW, STUART GURDEN & NINA LOLA BACHHUBER,

CHURCHILL THEATRE, THE CRUCIBLE, LEITHE-

new work by Glasgow based artist Stuart Gurden & New York based artist Nina Lola Bachhuber., FRI 9 NOV 9-DEC, 09:00, 21:00, Sat-Sat, Free

drama about a young Asian boxer, THU 1 NOV 19:30, £5/3.50

nist witch hunt allegory, WED 7 NOV SAT 10 NOV 19:30, £8/6

GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS, GROUP

HUNTERIAN, GROUP SHOW, MY HIGHEST PLEASURES, 16-JUN, 2-DEC, 09:30, 17:30, Mon-Sat, Free

KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, GROUP SHOW, KYLIE THE EXHIBITION, 22-SEP,

14-JAN, 10:00(Mon-Thu, Sat), 11:00 (Fri, Sun), 17:00, Mon-Sun, Free

ATRE, Local drama group tackle Arthur Miller’s commu-

TRAVERSE THEATRE, THE DARK PRINCE, WAVE THEATRE, Rehearsed reading of a new Annie George

THE PEARLFISHER, TRAVERSE THEATRE COMPANY,

Philip Howard marks his swansong as artistic director at The Trav with this tale of gypsy poachers in the north of MAN, MATTHEW BOURNE, A 19th Century Spanish cig- Scotland penned by longtime collaborator Ian MacLeod., UNTIL 10/11/07, various, £13/8 arette factory becomes a greasy garage-diner in 1960’s EILDH’ S DAILY UKULELE CEILDIH/THE STAGE SHOW, America where the dreams & passions of a small-town FISH & GAME, Every day this year, a 27-year-old Glasare shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger in this wegian called Eilidh MacAskill has performed a show of

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL THEATRE, THE CAR

THE LIGHTHOUSE, GILLESPIE, KIDD & COIA, ARCHITECTURE 1956-87, The first major retrospec-

tive of the work of one of the UK’s most distinguished architecture practices, SUN 4 NOV 11-FEB, 10:30(mon, wed-sat)/11:00(tue)/12:00(sun), 17:00, Mon-Sun, £3(£1.50)

GROUP SHOW, GLASGOW 1999 DESIGN MEDAL 2007, An opportunity to see work by a new generation of design talent, SUN 11 NOV 14-JAN, 10:30(mon, wedsat)/11:00(tue)/12:00(sun), 17:00, Mon-Sun, Free DESIGN & BUILD, SIX STUDENT AWARDS, A showcase of young talent, 19-AUG, MON 5 NOV 10:30(mon, wed-sat)/11:00(tue)/12:00(sun), 17:00, Mon-Sun, £3(£1.50)

LOWSALT, STEPHEN MURRAY & ALEX GROSS, OUT OF THE WRONG COMES THE SWEETNESS, A show

inspired by myth, follies & drunken boasts, SUN 4 NOV MON 19 NOV 12:00, 17:00, Thurs-Sun, Free

MARKET GALLERY, GROUP SHOW, CONVULSIVE ILLUSTRATION, SAT 10 NOV 9-DEC, 12:00, 18:00, Tue-Sat, Free

MITCHELL LIBRARY & THEATRE COMPLEX, GROUP SHOW, ROYAL GLASGOW INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITON, 13-OCT, MON 5 NOV 09:00, 20:00(Mon-Thu), 17:00(Fri, Sat), £2(£1)

MODERN INSTITUTE, SOLO SHOW, ANDREW KERR, 21-OCT, MON 12 NOV 11:00, 17:00, Tue-Sat, SOLO SHOW, THOMAS HOUSEAGO, Solo show by

the LA based sculptor, SUN 25 NOV 6-JAN, 11:00, 17:00, Tue-Sat,

PROJECT ABILITY (GALLERIES 1 & 2), GROUP SHOW, MENTAL IMAGE, Artworks on the

theme of mental wellbeing & mental illness, 9-OCT, SAT 24 NOV 10:00, 17:00, Mon-Fri, Free

Q! GALLERY, ANDREW PRINTER, BEYOND THE

SURFACE, Installations & other works tackling intimacy & assimilation, 13-SEP, SUN 11 NOV 11:00, 17:00, ThurSun, Free

RECOAT GALLERY, SOLO SHOW, KIRSTY

WHITEN, 16 pieces by one of Scotland’s most soughtafter young artists, SAT 3 NOV 1-DEC, 12:00, 20:00, Tue-Sun, Free EVENT, KIRSTY WHITEN AUCTION, The work from the show goes on sale to the highest bidder, 1-DEC, 19:00, 22:00, Fri, Free

SORCHA DALLAS, RAPHAEL DANKE, SOLO

SHOW, Solo show, 7-OCT, SUN 11 NOV 11:00, 17:00,

LISTINGS

FILM EDITORIAL

Nine is always having a good moan in her ed it or i a l s o I thought it was about time I tried something confrontational. I think Wes Anderson’s films are crap. There, I’ve said i t . E ve r yone e l s e seems to love his latest, The Darjeeling Limited, so maybe I just don’t get him. I suppose it could be more diplomatically suggested that he’s the Marmite of film, so I have taken the recommendations of my writers and colleagues on board, and here present an interview with the director himself. Do let me know what you think of The Darjeeling Limited, would you? Have more fu n than I did and see you i n December. Paul.

RELEASE SCHEDULE 2 NOV 30 Days Of Night (15) Brothers Solomon (15) Death At A Funeral (15) Elizabeth: The Golden Age (12A) Interview (15) The Lookout (15) Man Of The Year (12A)

9 NOV Air Guitar Nation (15) The Band’s Visit (12A) Ex Drummer (TBC) Good Luck Chuck (15) Into The Wild (15) Lions For Lambs (TBC) Planet Terror (18) Silk (TBC)

16 NOV American Gangster (18) Beowulf (TBC) Brick Lane (15) I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone (TBC) The Jane Austen Book Club (12A) The Wayward Cloud (18) Weirdsville (15)

23 NOV August Rush (TBC) Cocaine Cowboys (18) The Darjeeling Limited (15) Rescue Dawn (12A) Shrooms (18) Sleuth (15) Talk To Me (15) Wristcutters: A Love Story (15)

30 NOV All About Eve (U) The Assassination Of Jesse James (15) Fred Claus (TBC) Hitman (TBC) The Magic Flute (TBC) The Nines (15) Pathology (TBC) This Christmas (TBC)

Lost and found: Schwartzman, Wilson and Brody on board the Darjeeling Limited

Oddballs on track

WITH HIS FIFTH FEATURE ABOUT TO ARRIVE AT BRITISH CINEMAS, LAURA SMITH TAKES FIVE WITH WES ANDERSON AND MAKES THE CASE FOR HIS PECULIAR STYLE How to Make a Wes Anderson Film: A Beginners Guide. Take a handful of oddballs – preferably a kooky Family With Issues – place in a meticulously realised world of whimsy and wackiness and obser ve with meditative, choreographed tracking shots. Have your Family With Issues make deadpan obser vations as often as possible, while keeping a wistful, melancholic groove on a low simmer. Pump up a Kinks and/or Bowie number and make your FWI run in slow motion. Add quirk and stir. Many critics enjoy dismissing Anderson as yesterday’s wunderkind, doomed never to fulfil the early promise of his wonderful sophomore flick Rushmore, the success of which had no less than Martin Scorsese heralding the young director as the hope of the future. There’s no denying that this Marmite of movie-makers has carved a very specific niche for himself, dividing audiences and critics alike, but does he deserve the accusations of self-indulgent style over substance? Quirk for quirk’s sake is all very well, but it can become formulaic, bland, or just plain annoying. ‘Look at us!’ cry the quirkites, ‘aren’t we just soooo weird? Yet sweet and charming, and with ironic facial hair! Now let’s all do a funny dance!’ Not that I’m some kind of cheerleader for mainstream mediocrity - I’m as alternative as the next pseudo-bohemian liberal arts graduate. But there’s only so much pop-culture inflected meta-humour a girl can take. Still, the quirk-noir of Donnie

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In The Darjeeling Limited, Anderson’s fifth feature, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody leave no quirk unturned as the three estranged brothers who reunite for a spiritual journey of sorts on the titular train, a year after their father’s death. “I think with this movie the thing that interested me about these brothers was that we find them at a moment when they are all particularly lost,” explains Anderson. “Their father has died and their mother has disappeared and they can’t seem to form their own families.” The three leads work well together and, despite the obvious lack of physical resemblance, they’re a viable unit, black sheep triplets united in their disunity. “Something that happens when you try to cast a family,” says Anderson “is that you pretty quickly decide to just get the best actors that you can get. If you cast it for resemblance then you end up saying, well, I could get one of my favourite actors in the world to play this part or I could get someone who looks a little more like the other guy. I think great actors work out to be a family and they very quickly

started acting like brothers.” Anderson’s approach to casting might seem restrictive, his motley troupe of indie-cool collaborators popping up with increasing inevitability, but it’s important that the actors are on the same wavelength. And there’s a certain droll knowingness to the red herring cameos that the director teases the audience with in Darjeeling. Keeping it in the family is Jason Schwartzman, unforgettable in his break-out role in Rushmore, and equally good here. Or at least I think he was pretty good, it’s kind of hard to make him out behind that impressive comedy moustache which makes him look like a sort of composite of all the Beatles in India circa 1968. An understanding of the rather opaque motivation of Schwartzman’s character in Darjeeling benefits enormously from a viewing of Anderson’s accompanying short Hotel Chevalier, an exquisite 13 minute prelude to the main attraction available online. See it first if you possibly can. Schwartzman also co-wrote the script, with his cousin Roman Coppola and Anderson rounding out the real life oddball threesome behind the film. So how did the actor make the move into writing? Schwartzman is quick to credit his debt to Anderson’s guidance: “Wes had the initial idea, which was to do a movie about three brothers on a train in India and when he first brought it up to me, I didn’t think it was an invitation to co-write the movie,” says the actor, “I was in Paris at the time and was just finishing up on Marie Antoinette and I had a spare room, so Wes was staying with me for a

WES ANDERSON – IS HE GREAT OR DOES HE GRATE? BOTTLE ROCKET

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Darko was a kitschy eighties joy, the films of Michel Gondry are a genre unto themselves, and Charlie Kaufman’s warped vision of the world is just dark enough to temper any hint of self-indulgent eclecticism. But recent films like Napoleon Dynamite, Eagle vs. Shark, and even Little Miss Sunshine wore their indiecred wackiness a little too self-consciously. Anderson, though, is a horse of a quite different colour. Or a zebra. A multi-coloured, melancholic zebra with his iPod permanently on shuffle.

RUSHMORE

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

THE LIFE AQUATIC With Steve Zissou

LAURA: Anderson’s

LAURA: Sheer loopy

LAURA: Deliciously

LAURA: Bill Murray

predilection for off-centre, inventive whimsy is clear from his first feature, a goofy, deftly handled crime caper and a masterclass in comic naiveté.

genius in Anderson’s most successful blend of offbeat humour and quiet sadness, packed with detail and a memorable hepcat soundtrack.

eccentric, intellectual lunacy as Anderson ponders the strangeness of families in this labyrinthine, rarefied, completely artificial world. It might be his best work.

is at his most hilariously melancholic in this surreal, zany and psychedelic homage to Jacques Cousteau. Magic.

PAUL: The first of many tortures to come:

PAUL: Mean-spirited and packed

PAUL: Actually, if I’m being hon-

for inventive whimsy read strained characterisation and no laughs.

with oddballs, it’s another inexplicably well-loved sick bucket.

est, I can’t argue with this one.

PAUL: Anderson

goes all out for eccentricity in this none-more-whimsical underwater shambles. Unbearable.

FILM

DISRUPT

FOUNDATION BIT (WERK) Having toured with the mighty Rhythm and Sound last year, everyone’s been talking about Disrupt of late (check that Breezeblock mix), and Foundation Bit definitely does not disappoint. This is definitely Werk’s most punishing bass transmission to date and Foundation Bit rides the current dubstep frenzy whilst playing upon the classic Studio One sound and the echo-heavy atmospherics of Basic Channel. But this is no mere Burial imitation; Disrupt takes the standard reference points of dub and reworks them with joyous abandon, drowning valve organs in glitch and recreating the skanking sounds of King Tubby in Casio and Atari bleep. Foundation Bit is the plain where analogue and digital collide and Mario shares philosophy with Haille Sellasi. Praise mighty Jahtari. [Liam Arnold] OUT NOW

GEBRÜDER TEICHMANN

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAT (DISKO B)

Christ, don’t we just love acid. There’s something about those classic Roland Synths that seems to turn even the most accomplished of producers into a complete gurning twit who’ll dance to the lamest Voodoo Ray knock-off. The Brothers Teichmann, despite their usual reliability, seem to have succumbed to the same infectious disease that’s been mangling the minds of everyone from Luke Vibert to Josh Wink of late, and The Number of The Beat seems at first glance to be a fairly dull recreation of the same clashing pads and 2-note bass as every other knock-off merchant. Fortunately the brothers extend their sphere of influences, dipping their toes in spaced-out electro on Whateverman, stomping all over the current minimal buzz on the sardonic Berlin Scheissegal, and losing themselves in brooding cinematics on Inviolata. The Teichmann’s beast is a Hydra, a ferocious thing with claws, teeth and all the rest, but there’s a few too many heads trying to work at the same time. Intriguing. [Liam Arnold] OUT NOW

SINGLE REVIEWS

THE HEAVY

GREAT VENGEANCE AND FURIOUS FIRE

UNDERWORLD

DAVID JORDAN

(UNDERWORLDLIVE)

(MERCURY RECORDS)

OBLIVION WITH BELLS

(COUNTER RECORDS)

PLACE IN MY HEART 3

This is a comb i n a t i o n t h a t, on paper, just shouldn’t work. Va r y i n g e l e ments of silk y soul Stax vocals, hip-hop beats, funk brass, and a guitar sound that takes in everything from stoner metal to blues, all brewed together to sound like the bastard offspring of Gnarls Barkley and Primal Scream, but with baws, big baws. The album never really goes on to top its opening track (which has to be the most underpraised single of the year) That Kind of Man, but it’s hardly a matter of paling in comparison. Effortlessly shifting genre from song to song as the mood takes them, they have a total disregard for purism that must have had marketing departments crying with the prospect of devising a target audience. Each track is a stand up smile puller and it’s got more swagger than Mr Blonde. Only the closer Who Needs The Sunshine lets standards drop. [Jack McFarlane] RELEASE DATE: 5 NOV

FELIX DA HOUSECAT

VIRGO BL AK TRO & THE MOVIE DISCO (WALL OF SOUND) Having since become a byword for DJ superstardom and chic front room house, da Housecat has raised a few eyebrows over the prospect of a change of tact, especially over the P-Diddy collaboration. This isn’t the serious departure of style many may have feared, but it is a defiantly more commercial affair. The production leans towards vocals and electro boogie, which doesn’t come as much of a surprise, and it works despite all that could go against it. It’s a little flat and overly pastiche in places, but the majority of tracks do work and are great fun. It sets its own high-gloss coffee-table tone so well in fact, that when he does drop the otherwise very respectable ‘ave some a that! Tweak, it sounds very out of place. Not a classic, but it should raise a smile for clean cut ‘80s retro followers. [Jack McFarlane] OUT NOW

The fifth full studio release from Underworld marks a considered note of reflection over an epic 27 year long career that is something of a self-conscious turning point. With their regular touring schedule put on hold since 2005 in favour of extended studio time for their online-only releases, their music has largely moved away from a live incentive to a more experimental and intimate one. Taking both feet off the dancefloor has been the death of other acts, and although this does mark the sad absence of one of their would-be live bangers, they were never wholly dependent on those for highlights in the first place. This album hangs together through a more expansive and considered approach to their template, bringing their aesthetic to a more organic sounding epoch. Mature, elegant, but lacking the dancefloor friendly quality that most associate with the act. [Jack McFarlane] OUT NOW

VARIOUS ARTISTS N U E VA

VISION

(SONAR

KOLLEKTIVE)

Filled with the finest Cuban jazz of the last century and compiled by Ja z zanova and Erik Ot t, Nueva Vision is a fantastic listen. It features such Cuban greats as pianist Emiliano Salvador, labelled the pianists’ pianist by the American jazz fraternity. His song Son en 7/4 is an odyssey of a track, with some terrific piano playing and funky Spanish backing vocals. Bobby Carcasses’ Emiliano, with its scatting and finger tapping reminds us that jazz, particularly Cuban jazz, is fun to listen to. Soy Cubano by Omara is an exciting trumpet heavy high tempo track, while Mi Conga es laque es by R.E. Martinez demonstrates the soulful tender side of Cuban jazz. The tracks are as infectious as they are uplifting, and whether hip-hop or house is your weapon of choice your pelvis will be powerless to resist Nueva Vision’s charms. [Franck Martin] RELEASE DATE: 12 NOV

FEATURED ALBUM

The record that springs to mind immediately upon hearing this is David Gray’s 2000 single Please Forgive Me. Like that release, there are weird dance rhythms here, where no dance rhythms should be. The lyrics are to do with social conditioning, although not in a preachy, Phil Collins-st yle manner. The sounds are clear and sparse, with no clutter so that they linger long in the ear. Jordan sings plainly and simply from the heart with note-fornote precision and clarity, and is helped out by some simple backing arrangements which house his voice beautifully. A simple, charming treat of a song. [Jonathan Robert Muirhead] OUT NOW

DOMU & PETE SIMPSON

LOOK A LITTLE FURTHER (PAPA RECORDS)

This is a very hard, beefy dance track not afraid to march right over convention or boundary. This is borne out by the four versions present: all are very similar in that they use harmonies as a backbone, but each one has a nice wee twist that makes you sit up and take notice. The Muthafunkaz Team handles all remix duties, giving each part of the song its moment in the sun. It’s toughened up by a big bass sound and sweetened by gospel-ish harmonies throughout: this is what makes it such a wonderfully upbeat record. [Jonathan Robert Muirhead] RELEASE DATE: 19 NOV

FLYING LOTUS RESET EP (WARP)

Flying Lotus is the first high profile addition to the instrumental hip-hop scene for somet i m e n o w to gain any real recognition as actually contributing something of merit, and has pushed his digital pulse all the way from mobile phone adverts to the true heart of electronic auteurism, Warp records. Opening track Tea Leaf Dancers, the only vocal track here, is a seductive and sultry post-midnight slow dancer with top 40 written all over it, but it doesn’t

DJ CHART:

DOUBLE HELIX

steal the show from the rest of the non-vocal content; chunky electrified head boppers with an air of the socially-conscious. Closing after only six all too short tracks, appetites are set to be properly whet for his November live shows. [Jack McFarlane] OUT NOW

GLADIO

HADRIAN’S WALL EP ROBOT RECORDINGS)

The five tracks on here were built up through lengthy, groove-based jamming sessions, and the approach seems to have brought each element of Gladio’s sound – raucous funk, electro, and epic, sweeping orchestral soundscapes – so close together that they end up sounding like a gang. There are no languid instrumentals; bullying basslines slam-dunk their way into your gut. Swirling electro noises dance on top of them, pulling you into their slipstream. The whole creation runs riot over your stereo system, as if it’s bursting to escape. [Jonathan Robert Muirhead]

GLYPHIC

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REDNECK RENEGADE RUNNING OUT

(FAT NORTHERNER RECORDS)

LIVING DARFUR (ANGEL RECORDS)

OUT NOW

MATTAFIX

Mattafix are London-based duo Marlon R o u d e t te a n d P r e e te s h H i r j i who aim to make positive music for the 21st century. Latest single Living Darfur was created with the help of several celebrities, including Mick Jagger, Desmond Tutu and George Clooney, in order to raise awareness of the current desperate situation in Darfur and its objective is to highlight the need for an immediate ceasefire. The vocals on the track are moving and sung with great passion, infused with tribal beats and a dance background. Let’s hope Mattafix achieve all they set out to do with this record. [Karen Taggart] OUT NOW WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MATTAFIX

MICHAEL FAKESCH SODA REMIXES (!K7)

German-based duo Sean Finn & Gino Montesano bring you their take on Corey Har t’s 1980s hit Sunglasses At Night. With five remixes in all, the songs explore the original from many angles, be it hands in the air house or jackedup electro. The Moog Mix and M1 The Club Mix are two of the single’s weaker tracks, both guilty of clichéd beat-mongering. However, The Chicks On House Remix is an example of uplifting euphoric house and as such will appeal to all lovers of the textbook house formula, while the Club Mix, with its rocktonic rifts and funky bass line will at the very least inspire some dancefloor casualties to keep their sunglasses on! [Franck Martin]

beats, beyond the conventions of mainstream hip-hop. 6. NEIL LANDSTRUMM – ASSASSIN MASTER (PLANET MU) The perfect fusion of dubstep, techno and old-school rave, from Scotland’s most interesting electronic pioneer. 7. GREAT EZCAPE – D.I.Y. (GREAT EZCAPE RECORDINGS) Uptempo breakbeat hip-hop with blockbusting, tight couplets from Profisee and Simba, and a rolling, addictive beat by superproducer Vigilante.

3. HORSEPOWER PRODUCTIONS – GOLDEN NUGGET

and skittering jungle drum loops, Foxy flirts with 2-step garage... you want it, he got it, with dub roots thrown in into the bargain. Resplendent with rich instrumental mastery and a non-discriminatory experimentation ethic, Boxcutter paves the way for, and will doubtless be hailed as an example to, novice music-makers. Don’t miss him touring Glyphic at Tronic, Glasgow, on 17 Nov - check out our preview. And buy the album, obviously. [Rosie McLean] OUT NOW

T he d i rec t or a ck nowle d ge s t h a t A We s Anderson Film is certainly visually distinctive, but he is defensive about charges of repetition: “All my energy goes into what we can do to make this film new and different and how can we tell the story well. Yet somehow I manage to take a movie set in New York or Italy or on a boat or a train in India and people say, it’s a lot like your other work. I guess it’s just my funny way of seeing things.”

“I always knew there would be Jason,” Anderson

(CAYENNE RECORDINGS)

A DJ CHART LESS ORDINARY, FROM GENRE CONFUSION AGENTS DOUBLE HELIX (SEE THIS MONTH’S FEATURE). RATHER THAN OPTING FOR TEN TRACKS OF THE LATEST BEATS AND DUBS, THE DUO OFFER A SMATTERING OF THE TRACKS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED THEIR ECLECTIC LIVE SOUND.

Crashing breaks, rolling, uptempo dubstep bass, and crazy Spaghetti Western samples from Tempa’s most innovative producers.

8. PAVEMENT – ELEVATE ME LATER (DOMINO) A live cover in the works: Stephen Malkmus’ elegantly twisted lyrics sum up a particularly bored kind of teenage disaffection. We add several new verses.

4. CRYSTAL DISTORTION – THE GREAT INFORMATION Robbery (Labrat Audiochemicals) Mental acid breakbeat workout from Crystal Distortion, formerly a member of techno legends Spiral Tribe.

9. PENPUSHERS – ACROPOLIS (KFM) A cut from the ‘Pushers first LP, combining unparalleled science fiction narratives with dark and sinister beats.

5. SAUL WILLIAMS – OHM (RAWKUS) Beat poetry set to clashing space-breaks and monastic chanting, a template for what can be achieved with voice and

10. TOBIAS SCHMIDT – SYSTEMSHOCKER (FEINWORK) Like Landstrumm, another graduate of the Sativae / Test school of Scottish techno-headz. Weighty.

(TEMPA)

Notably absent from publicity junkets, and from this inter view, is Owen Wilson, A nderson’s long-time collaborator and the eldest brother in Darjeeling. It’s impossible to watch Wilson’s character – bandaged up almost beyond recognition after a self-inflicted accident – and not feel slightly uncomfortable given recent events in the actor’s private life, but I can’t imagine a single person not wishing him well. Nobody can find a gentle innocence in the idle rich quite like Anderson, and Wilson’s quiet, deadpan delivery is a perfect match. As Anderson recently said at a screening: “I’ve never made a movie without him, and I hope I never have to.”

is a bit of a crazy way to go about it,” says Anderson. “But I wanted to and they wanted to and that experience fuelled the movie.” A nderson’s baroque, ornately constructed style is set against the noisy, spicy bustle of rural northern India to great effect; the country’s exoticism is a rich, textured tapestry that forms the backdrop for the central trio’s working through of those aforementioned Issues. “We tried to make the film about what we discovered in India and it’s the most vibrant place I have ever been,” Anderson enthuses. “There is colour everywhere and it’s just a matter of choosing which direction to point the camera.”

SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT

RELEASE DATE: NOV 07

2. SOLA PERPLEXUS – MEXICAN BEANS (AUDIODACITY) As played on Radio 1 by Huw Stephens - a great example of the kind of rolling tech-breaks we use in the Double Helix live show.

while. We would go for these late night walks and tell stories about the girls that we knew - things they had said, things we’d said back - and go off on all kinds of tangents from there. Wes would always be writing stuff down and after about three weeks he suddenly said, ‘You know this movie we’re writing, we should bring Roman in on this.’ I hadn’t realized we were writing a movie together ‘til then.”

SEAN FINN & GINO MONTESANO

The first single from the former Funkstorung knob twiddler’s solo

(PLANET MU)

The revoltingly talented guitarist, producer and forger of almighty crossover beats known as Boxcutter is really just the revoltingly talented Northern Irish Barry Lynn in disguise and this rainbow weave record is truly idiosyncratic. Alongside Vex’d and Burial, Boxcutter has already dipped his toe into the crossover waters. Previous album Oneric (2006) and now the monumental, multi-faceted Glyphic, shimmer with innovation as their architect forges a new direction for electronic music. There’s not a single track to skip, but undoubtedly Chiral and Bug Octet are the real keepers for dubstep fans, sporting high-tension skittering electro-dubs with a nod to Mu labelmate Vex’d. Further in, imagine what might happen if Bonobo, armed to the teeth with trip hop and jazz, ventured into the trippier hues of electronica and grappled with dub on the way: this is the organic masterpiece track Kaleid. Nanobot is awash with astral flutes, jazz samples, xylophones, acoustic

OUT NOW

For the last two years Gary Ross claims to have been holed up in an oil rig in the North Sea honing his songs to perfection. The Skinny suggests he returns and comes back with a better effort. Not that Running Out is bad - it has your usual indie warble, predictable beats and a tempo and chorus with welltimed volume influxes. But come on, is that it? Come on guys - make the commute, get together and throw some ideas about – you never know what you might come up with and it can’t be any worse than this. [Lara Moloney]

1. COMPANY FLOW – SILENCE (RAWKUS) Classic raw beats and flows from El-P, Bigg Jus and the Indelible MCs – contains the seminal line: “Even when I say nothing / It’s a beautiful use of negative space...”

BOXCUTTER

(MIGHTY

album, Dos, is an utterly unmissable 12”, with a killer reshape from Andi Toma, last seen making everyone’s favourite cantankerous Lancastrian cool again. Toma’s rejig of Soda subtly shifts the component parts to create a furious fusion of great pop hooks and booty-shaking electro; it’s Justin Timberlake fronting Modeselektor, it’s DJ Funk whaling on Bad-era Michael Jackson. In short, and it’s the most devastating tune you’ll hear all year. [Liam Arnold]

FILM

ALBUM REVIEWS

Colour and chaos: India provides the backdrop for Anderson’s latest

says of the film’s casting, “and Owen is automatic for me. I tend to think of him very early in the process, if not before: Owen is like one of my brothers. And Adrien is somebody who I’d wanted to work with for many years.” Adrien Brody fits right into the Anderson milieu, with his Buster Keaton-esque awkwardness and lopsided, hangdog face, “What can I say?” the actor grins, “I was born to be lanky.” So, what was it like to join the cool kids in the indie corner? “I was honoured,” Brody admits. “I am a big fan of his work and I was always saying to people that I wished I could be in one of his films. He’s a unique filmmaker with a very individual way of looking at the world and it was lovely to get to be a part of the family, so to speak. I also thought this script was pretty special.” Brody hasn’t done a lot of comedy, which is really quite surprising considering he’s such an expressive, physical actor. But as well as nailing Anderson’s off-kilter, so-dry-you’ll-need-acocktail-olive, unique sense of humour, Brody is masterful at the moments of real, lyrical sadness that characterise the third act of the movie. “What’s beautiful about this film as far as I’m concerned is that at its core, as well as being very funny, it’s also a very emotional film and something you can really connect to,” the actor says. “It deals with family drama, family problems - getting rid of the baggage from the past - and yet it’s also very humorous and light. It doesn’t weigh you down at all.”

When the great silent filmmaker D.W. Griffith made his famous pronouncement: “The task I am trying to achieve above all is to make you see,” he recognised that film allows glimpses of that unique, unimaginable thing: to see the world through someone else’s eyes. And that’s the real delight in a Wes Anderson film, to experience a surreal, vivid, askew way of seeing things, like a trip down the portal in Charlie Kaufman’s quirk-tastic Being John Malkovich. Being Wes Anderson for 90-odd minutes can be intoxicating, funny and joyous if you can accept that you’re not in Kansas any more. Quirky he most definitely is, but in locating his latest film in an unfamiliar context, Anderson hints at a compassion for the world beyond all the peacock-bright dolls house dioramas. As Adrien Brody says, “The beauty of India is that you cannot override the chaos, you can’t override the spontaneous things that happen and you really have to accept that and roll with it.” The same could be said of an Anderson film. Sure, all the beauty, exquisite craftsmanship and emotional depth of a Faberge egg is never going to satisfy some audiences, but after a while you just have to sit back, accept that you’re on a train ride that might very well go nowhere at all, and enjoy the view.

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“When we were writing we went to India and we tried to imitate the journey, to act it out, which

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Self-promotion and reinvention by Alex Burden

THE SKINNY CHATS WITH TEXTURE AND SOLA PERPLEXUS ABOUT HOW IT FEELS TO BREAK OUT WITHOUT PLAYING A SINGLE LIVE GIG...

American Gangster

ALL ABOUT EVE DIR: JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ STARS: BETTE DAVIS, CELESTE HOLM, ANNE BAXTER, GEORGE SANDERS RELEASE DATE: 30 NOV CERT: U

“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night,” advises the incomparable Bette Davis in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s wickedly poisonous satire of 1950s Broadway, still dripping venom from every frame. Davis is at her swaggering, histrionic best with a towering performance as fading star Margo Channing, equal parts acid-tongued chutzpah and brittle-edged pathos. The years are beginning to take their toll on this theatrical grand dame and her glittering career is losing its lustre; a fact not helped by the silky platitudes and eyelash-fluttering of starry-eyed ingénue Eve (Baxter), slowly ingratiating herself into Margo’s life onstage and off. The dialogue is pure pyrotechnics; they really don’t write ‘em like this anymore. Sure, all those hardboiled ripostes may seem a touch elaborate at times – any semblance of a plot submerged in a shower of

barbed bon mots – but you’re having too much fun to care. I mean, it’s Bette Davis – martini-swinging, eye-popping, playing to the back of the theatre with every ounce of selfmocking bravura she can muster, while Marilyn Monroe shimmies past in a luminous cameo and George Sanders purrs each acerbic apercu with the languid urbanity that only he could get away with. The newly restored print is practically flawless, and with Davis’ centennial just around the corner, there couldn’t be a better time to revisit what is quite simply one of the most enjoyable films ever made. [Laura Smith]

AMERICAN GANGSTER DIR: RIDLEY SCOTT STARS: DENZEL WASHINGTON,

Death at a Funeral gling heroin into the US in the coffins of soldiers being flown home from Vietnam, and of the only honest cop in town (Crowe) who heads the task force trying to bring him to justice. Part Lucas biopic, part action thriller, part police procedural, the two and a half hour running time flies by with the immediacy of Scorsese at his best. Washington is mesmerising and Crowe has a lot of success playing slightly against type as a cop more used to using brain than brawn. The big showdown between the pair is a long time coming, but it’s just about worth the wait and any film that can coax a good performance from Cuba Gooding Jr. has to be worth a look. [Paul Greenwood]

ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE

RUSSELL CROWE, JOSH BROLIN, CUBA GOODING JR.

DIR: SHEKHAR KAPUR

RELEASE DATE: 16 NOV

STARS: CATE BLANCHETT, CLIVE OWEN,

CERT: 18

GEOFFREY RUSH, SAMANTHA MORTON

American Gangster, Ridley Scott’s best film in many years, is the true story of how Harlem crook Frank Lucas (Washington) became one of the biggest drug barons on the east coast during the ‘70s by smug-

RELEASE DATE: 2 NOV CERT: 12A

Picking up many years after the events of Elizabeth, sequel The Golden Age covers a turbulent period in the reign of the now middle-aged

Elizabeth I (Blanchett), with England on the brink of overthrow by Spain and a multitude of Catholic conspirators - chief amongst them her cousin Mary Queen of Scots (Morton, with a rather fruity accent) - armed only with an iron will and the help of her trusted allies Walsingham (Rush) and Walter Raleigh (Owen). On paper it should be a triumph. In reality it’s a fairly straightforward drama that foregoes the labyrinthine skulduggery of the first film for a more simplistic but still entertaining adventure, beautiful to look at but historically compromised. The modest scale of the climactic battle disappoints and the music is a touch too bombastic, while the Pythonesque Spaniards are just ridiculous. Blanchett has emerged in the decade since the first film as one of the world’s great actors and she commands the screen once again here, portraying a woman at turns fragile and determined, but always desperately sad, the none too subtle implication being that she gave her life to her country when what she really needed was Raleigh to drop his pantaloons. [Paul Greenwood]

RESCUE DAWN

FILM OF THE MONTH

DIR: WERNER HERZOG STARS: CHRISTIAN BALE, STEVE ZAHN, JEREMY DAVIES RELEASE DATE: 23 NOV CERT: 12A

PLANET TERROR DIR: ROBERT RODRIGUEZ STARS: FREDDY RODRIGUEZ, ROSE MCGOWAN, MICHAEL BIEHN RELEASE DATE: 9 NOV CERT: 18

Apparently it was all Robert Rodriguez’s fault. Planet Terror was shit they said, and that’s why Grindhouse bombed. Not so. Planet Terror is a riot, every bit as fun as Death Proof. The failure of Grindhouse was down to bad marketing. It’s hard to imagine anyone watching this and not being thoroughly enthused for the second part of the double bill. If anything, Planet Terror feels closer to the sleazy, ramshackle, drive-in muck-fest that both films intended, and Death Proof is actually quite clean and sober in comparison – the missing reel here is exactly that, meaning we lose about ten minutes of action and cut from a sex scene straight to the building being on fire. And even though we don’t get the full gallery of fake trailers, there’s some compensation in the form of

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Rodriguez’s own teaser for the might-really-get-made Machete, starring Danny Trejo as a hit-man out for revenge: “Set up, double crossed and left for dead. But they soon realise… they just fucked with the wrong Mexican.” Sublime. But the feature presentation is a glorious, plot free clatter through the very best things a comedy horror can offer, all smeared with astonishing levels of violence and gore. Bruce Willis is some army dude who unleashes a virus, Rodriguez (Freddy not Robert) is the badass hero and McGowan is his ex who gets her leg replaced by a machine gun. And there are zombies. Lots of zombies. If you’ve ever wanted to see Tarantino’s knob rot and fall off, this is the film for you. [Paul Greenwood]

In Werner Herzog’s survival thriller Rescue Dawn, a lean Christian Bale plays German-born US fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, shot down and captured in the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War. Invited by his captors to denounce America, he refuses the easy way out and from then on has to rely on everincreasing powers of resourcefulness to survive along with the other prisoners (Zahn & Davies) kept in the same dilapidated bamboo huts. Herzog’s film has echoes of two of his previous classics, Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, Wrath of God in pitting a man fighting against elements beyond his control in the jungle, and he directs tightly, abetted by Bale’s livewire performance as Dengler to make for a film that is, pleasingly, not wholly predictable. The tone is set early on, with a memorably haunting scene; US bombs drop grotesquely upon a lush countryside, and you can’t help but be pained, knowing the devastation they’re causing. Herzog and Bale: a decent combination. [Matt Arnoldi]

TALK TO ME DIR: KASI LEMMONS

Green (Cheadle) who persuades quiet mannered radio station director Dewey Hughes (Ejiofor) to help him get a slot on big-time WOL-AM. Their rules are broken in a flash by the ebullient Green who doesn’t mince words. By tapping into the vibes on the streets, he becomes a valuable asset both to WOL-AM and the community at large. Kasi Lemmons has come up with an entertaining biopic, hot on period detail that sizzles thanks to the erudite performances of Cheadle and Ejiofor. They’ve never acted together before but on this evidence it hopefully won’t be the last time. The film dips slightly late on but is rewarding in its capture of a magnetic friendship that grows between the quiet helmer and his livewire prodigy. [Matt Arnoldi]

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD DIR: ANDREW DOMINIK STARS: BRAD PITT, CASEY AFFLECK, SAM ROCKWELL RELEASE DATE: 30 NOV CERT: 15

This neo-western (I think the proper term is revisionist, but hey) is well served by its title. Too well, in fact, as the film has precious little else to say. Over its two hours and forty minutes (and you’ll feel every one of them) director Andrew Dominik shows us lots of beautiful scenes, but doesn’t tell us anything we couldn’t have figured out by reading the name of the film. Added to this, the film is narrated in the most infuriating style, with the speaker basically restating everything that we are seeing onscreen, as it happens. It becomes more and more redundant as the film progresses, and makes any subtlety the film may have had non-existent. Pitt is miscast as the legendary outlaw James, and delivers pretty much the same performance he has been giving since Se7en, all facial twitches and meaningful nods, even resorting to using Tyler Durden’s laugh in one particularly grating scene. Only two things make the film worth a look; the wonderful cinematography by Roger Deakins, which captures perfectly the mythical quality that Dominik is clearly reaching for, and Casey Affleck’s flawless performance as Robert Ford. He personifies a man precariously balanced between devotion and destruction, and captures a quality so disturbing that you feel uneasy just watching him speak. Unfortunately it’s not enough to make this a great film by any stretch of the imagination, and it has to be classed as a major disappointment. [Parker Langley]

THE DARJEELING LIMITED

STARS: DON CHEADLE, CHIWETEL EJIOFOR, MARTIN SHEEN

DIR: WES ANDERSON

RELEASE DATE: 30 NOV

STARS: ADRIEN BRODY, OWEN

CERT: 15

WILSON, JASON SCHWARTZMAN

Talk To Me sidles into the soul scene of ‘60s Washington to tell the true story of charismatic and controversial ex-con turned DJ Ralph “Petey”

RELEASE DATE: 23 NOV CERT: 15

Okay, so Wes Anderson’s particular patented brand of esoteric eccentric-

ity is not going to be everyone’s cup of Darjeeling (“God-awful baws if you ask me” – ed.), and in his latest film, the thrummy rocksnob soundtrack, family issues and slo-mo tracking shots are all present and correct. The director probably isn’t going to make any new converts, but for fans it’s a delight. This time around, three brothers, one train, a laminating machine and a whole lotta India are the subject matter under Anderson’s kaleidoscopic gaze. Despite gorgeous visuals and a sharp, wry script, it’s an uneven, episodic film. Once the brothers get off the train the film hits a bit of a downturn and tends to drag – even at ninety-odd minutes it feels a bit too long. But it bristles with Anderson’s characteristic verve and a genuine poignancy, full of sparky, dry humour, colour-saturated scenery and red herring cameos. Thankfully the Inner Journey platitudes are kept to a minimum and the result is an oddly bittersweet, playful odyssey, in an unabashedly quirky, postcolonial kind of way. [Laura Smith]

In this increasingly digitised and MySpace-saturated world, it’s perhaps not surprising to discover a group on their way to success without playing a single live gig, but you can’t help but wonder how it all works - only five years ago, telling someone that you were being given airplay on Radio One and releasing on an international basis would lead them to suspect that the greasy hands of a slick mogul were behind it. Edinburgh-based Double Helix are doing just that, but they only have their own graft and self-promotion to thank. Texture and Sola Perplexus are the brains and talent behind Double Helix, and this year they are featuring on Crunk’s Not Dead Vol 2, a compilation featuring bands on an electro, punk or hip-hop tip. The beginnings of this adventure started when DH got involved in a MySpace promo-share with Scream Club (K Records / Ipecac). What exactly is a promo-share? “Most unsigned / self-releasing bands have good local distribution networks, and can shift 100 or so vinyls pretty easily. However, most vinyl pressing plants need you to get 1000 or so made for a 12” run, which is outside the financial means of most bands at that level,” says Texture. “Scream Club’s idea was that we would all band together and release the 12” as a compilation, fitting as many bands on as possible. The 12” will be very diverse and radical – everything from the infectiously camp to the punk as fuck, from twisted electro to raucous hip-hop–meets performance art.” How did you get involved with Scream Club? “I was speaking to Cindy Wonderful from Scream Club on MySpace about trying to book a gig in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is a place which is very hard to get decent gigs for underground bands. Unless you play shitty Franz Ferdinand rip-off indie pish or mainstream house, you’d be better off goin’ to Glasgow,” muses Texture. “Scream Club are a really experimental electro / hip-hop / punk band, who have previously recorded with Peaches and Chicks On Speed. Although Double Helix aren’t a queer band, they liked our experimental side and were really digging the beats and lyrical conundrums of our track Complacency.”

DH have a l ready relea sed v i nyl on thei r ow n Audiodacity label, and Crystal Distortion’s Labrat Audiochemicals, so the idea of releasing their music through smaller ventures is no longer a novelty. Sola Perplexus is an old-hand at the DJ and live gig circuit now, having spent the last ten years DJing across Scotland, England and Ireland as Perplexus or his alter ego Morph. You may remember the celebrated gigs he played at Pillbox, Dogma, Lost, JakN, and Curios?, to name a few. The group have been together for four years, reducing from a five-piece band (losing their drummer to Found) to a duo as time progressed. “We realised there was more scope for reinterpretation and improvisation that remained true to the Double Helix feel by stripping it down to just the two of us, a mic and a box of tricks,” says Sola Perplexus. Their material is electro and techno influenced, but their live sets take in dubstep and breakbeat along the way: fans of Sola Perplexus’ solo work will recognise the trademark ‘wonk’ and grinding bass, which is overlaid with Texture’s poetic vocals that cover everything from high school shootings to evolutionary theory, drawing on influences such as hip-hop artist El-P (“some of his rhymes are so challenging, they provide real mental jump-off points for my own thinking”), Edinburghbased performance poet Jem Rolls, Spank Rock and Aesop Rock. Hints of distorted guitar wail sit alongside head-fuck techno reminiscent of Chan ‘n’ Mikes Records output, the hurry-up urgency of blistering breakbeat grime, the descending bass of d&b and distended electronics. How does it feel to be going international without even playing a live single gig? “It feels great – we’ve been lucky enough to have been supported by Radio One (played by both MaryAnne Hobbes and Gilles Peterson) on a couple of occasions, so we know there are people out there who have heard the band, and are just waiting for more releases and some gigs. We definitely feel like we’ve got something to prove – we’ve

Photo: Jack Waddington

gone about the process in the opposite way from most bands... My dream would be to get together several Scottish acts and put together some kind of joint road adventure. I think it’s time Edinburgh bands broke out. I’d love to play with Penpushers, Great Ezcape or Sileni, but it will of course be a question of time and money.” Crunk’s Not Dead Vol 2 will be available at local independent record stores, through the CND website, or from some of the artists themselves. Price is tbc, but keep an eye on the websites for future announcements, and look out for Skinny previews of Double Helix’s first live gigs in Scotland in the coming months. W W W.SCR E A M CLU B.CO M

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DEATH AT A FUNERAL DIR: FRANK OZ STARS: MATTHEW MACFADYEN, RUPERT GRAVES, ALAN TUDYK RELEASE DATE: 2 NOV CERT: 15

Frank Oz gleefully skewers the middle class mores of an Agatha Christie-like setting with this gloriously daft black comedy from first-time writer Dean Craig. Gathered together for the funeral of a well-to-do patriarch with one or two skeletons knocking around his closet, a large and dysfunctional family (is there any other kind?) find their upper lips becoming markedly unstiffened as restrained decorum gives way to utter mayhem. The farcical plot machinations centre on a glumly staid Matthew Macfadyen, striving desperately to maintain his sanity amid the escalating chaos. The malevolent intentions of a mysterious dwarf, some unwitting ingestion of hallucinogens by a nervous lawyer, and the subsequent discovery of the aforementioned skeletons, all combine to snowball the initial chuckles into riotous, old-fashioned slapstick comedy. Like an outrageously twisted episode of Fawlty Towers, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, and then some. The cast are great, mostly Brit-com stalwarts doing what they do best, but Yank Alan Tudyk is absolutely terrific: spending much of the movie resplendent in naked delirium, he manages to be both effortlessly hilarious and genuinely touching. While the more scatological moments seem unnecessary, and the attempts at establishing back-story never quite convince, it’s still a rambunctious, loony joy, the funniest film I’ve seen this year. [Laura Smith]

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NOVEMBER 07

THE SKINNY

by Peter Walker

BEATS GOES ON THE PISTE IN SEARCH OF BIG AIR AND BIG TUNES Every year the British Universities Snowsports C ou nci l ( BU S C ) or g a n i s e s t he B r it i s h Universities Dry Slope Championship (BUDS); there, that’s the abbreviations out the way. This involves the ski and snowboard teams from most British universities congregating at Midlothian Snowsports Centre, or Hillend to regulars, for two days of fierce competition over several disciplines, including: slalom, GS, boarder dual, team parallel, big air, boarder-x, slopestyle and pro-am competitions. All well and good, but why is Beats telling you all about this distinctly lifestyle sounding event? Well because everyone knows any good ski holiday’s on piste activities should be equalled if not bettered by the après ski. A nd this year’s party is looking hot, with the Friday night frivolity at City nightclub head l i ned by aud iov i sua l maestro’s T he Eclectic Method. Even if the name doesn’t ring any bells, chances are you’ve seen one of their many productions, either on the MTV show Mash, in hip-hop documentaries like Freestyle and Scratch, or as part of music videos for the likes of Fatboy Slim and U2. Their methods of splicing clips of TV and movies with music in a turntablist fashion are certainly not unique (if you caught DJ Yoda’s At The Movies tour you’ll have a rough idea), but the skill and speed with which they mix and match, combined with the variety of musical and visual content, is simply breathtaking. Jonny and Geoff of Eclectic Method took some time out from their hectic schedule in Madrid to swap a few emails about their upcoming performance and explain what they are all about. First, can you explain what to expect for someone who’s never seen or heard you before? “Audiovisual jamming; you see what you hear,” says Jonny. “The backbone of our

performance is a dancef loor romp through the best music from the classics to the latest underground, and its flesh and blood is audiovisual samples from every kind of pop music, TV show and film you can imagine,” says Geoff, “We’re all about subverting expectations, creating juxtapositions, and making a party go off in a really original and fun way.” Equipped w ith tur ntables (DV D and CD), mixers, and scratch mixers, each takes turns manning the different decks, drawing on inspiration from the likes of Emergency Broadcast Network, and a special shout-out from Jonny goes to Coldcut and Hexstatic’s Timber, a “classic audiovisual composition using images and sounds from the rainforest and the logging industry.” How do you co-ordinate the show? “We don’t really keep track at all,” says Geoff, “communication between us is usually just about what tempo and overall vibe to improvise at... The most inconvenient moment is when we accidentally drop the same instrumental music on CD and video acapella on DVD simultaneously, thereby perfectly remaking the music video in its original form. When that happens it ends up looking like we’re not doing anything up there!”

some audio visual mash up, a very special kind of cutting and scratching with videos clips. They’re billed as 2 Many DJs but with videos, so it’s going to be a musical journey for sure.” The Eclectic Method will be supported by hip-hop crew The Urban Nights, and a fine selection of Edinburgh’s best resident DJs with representatives from Sugarbeat, Motherfunk, We Are Electric, Access, Bass Syndicate, Split, and Xplicit, all playing across three different rooms in City nightclub. Then for those who are competing there’s no time for a hangover as competition continues throughout Saturday, culminating in a student-only prize giving

ceremony and black tie dinner at the Corn Exchange. But even if you’re not competing or a student, there’s still lots to get involved in with live DJs and bars to entertain you whilst watching the competition, and the Eclectic Method and more on the Friday.

AFTERPARTY, CITY NIGHTCLUB, EDINBURGH, 9 NOV, 11PM3AM, £10 ON THE DOOR OR IN ADVANCE FROM EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY. WWW.BUSCEVENTS.COM WWW.ECLECTICMETHOD.NET

It’s a Friday night in 1995. We are introduced to six New Yorkers; three gorgeous girlies and three handsome men. Well, okay, not three handsome men, but one handsome man and two cute-ish comical ones. Thus Friends landed in Britain and man, were they made welcome. Watched by millions it was a show that became part of the fabric of a generation, knitting its way into our world before we realised it was there. Suddenly every event could be compared to an episode of Friends, everyone wondered if Ross and Rachel would get together or back together or stay together. We loved Richard but it was Chandler who got Monica in the end. And we loved him more. And what about Chandler? Thin, fat, Belsen-esque, Elvis in his later years.

Do any of you ski or snowboard? “I ski, am useless on a snowboard,” says Jonny, while Geoff, who does not partake at all, mentions their gig at the Sundance Film Festival, where they asked if they could hire tea trays to ride down the nursery slope at a resort in Park City: “The ski assistant just gave us a withering look.” The Chairman of the inter-university team committee, Harry Quartermain, explains the reasons behind choosing the act; “Basically we wanted to put on a good show, and we knew that the Eclectic Method lay on an awe-

“WE’RE ALL ABOUT SUBVERTING EXPECTATIONS, CREATING JUXTAPOSITIONS, AND MAKING A PARTY GO OFF IN A REALLY ORIGINAL AND FUN WAY.” - GEOFF OF ECLECTIC METHOD

The girls, of course, never changed size, except of course for those memorable flash-back episodes of when Monica was fat. And there you have it, these characters had flaws. They were sexy yes, but they were dysfunctional too. We could relate to them. What were the best moments? Phew. Hard to decide. Thinking of Friends brings on a Ulysses style of consciousness, with one scene crashing into another, tidal waves of comic moments colliding in your mind. What’s necessary then, is some order....

PREVIEWS EASTCOAST BALKANARAMA

THE CAVES, EDINBURGH, 23 NOV There’s been an explosion of Balkan beats in recent years, but in case those lightning peels of rhythm and melody sped past you unidentified, here’s what it is: frenetic and intense gypsy-style tunes squeezed, scraped and flowing from accordions, violins, and clarinets, that fly over a rich belly of intriguingly timed oom-cha rhythm. You may feel compelled to buy a beer and hold it high in the air with one arm around the shoulders of someone you love but have never met before, yelling “Opa!” at the top of your lungs. The organizer of the night, Sashka, is herself Bosnian and has brought together Balkan musicians and members of bands such as Orkestra del Sol and One Glass Eye for a unique performance. Sashka herself will be singing with Black Cat, a band as talented as they are outrageous, and DJs will play eclectic Balkan grooves in between. Get there early to watch a documentary about Serbians making incredible things out of old cars, and stay all night to jump, sway, and celebrate the fifth and biggest Balkanarama. [Josh Coppersmith-Heaven] 9PM–3AM, £5

AUDIO BULLYS (LIVE)

SUGARBEAT, CABARET VOLTAIRE, EDINBURGH, 30 NOV Two years on from their massive success with the Nancy Sinatra-sampling Shot You Down single and Generation album, the Audio Bullys return to the fray as part of their Flickery Vision tour (borne from the Flickery Vision EP)

at Edinburgh’s Sugarbeatclub. Always a more successful proposition live than on disc, the Bullys have much to prove, having taken lengthy breaks after their initial spurt of success and depriving fans of more top anthem tracks like Shot Me Down, Ego Wall, and the swaggering We Don’t Care, so this gig should be something really special. Peter Hook, a founder member of Joy Division and bassist for New Order, will also be on hand for a DJ set, and Roisin Murphy, former singer with Moloko, will be performing a live set from her solo LP Overpowered. With all that and the Utah Saints, this is a pant-wetting line-up! Don’t forget; the launch of Cab’s new floor, dubbed the Speakeasy, is on the same night, so start reserving your private tables now for somewhere to chill and watch the action on screens when the dancefloor gets too raucous. Enjoy the extra leg room folks! [Jonathan Robert Muirhead & Struan Otter] 11PM-3AM, £TBC

BENBECULA SHOWCASE

THE WEE RED BAR, EDINBURGH, 30 NOV Benbecula Records, home to some of the most innovative and intelligent electronica being produced, are hitting the Wee Red for a special showcase. It will feature performances from many of the acclaimed artists on the label’s roster, such as Ochre, whose melodic ambience is lined with emotion, and Araya, an accessible IDM artist whose influences range from Squarepusher to the Sugababes. Also due to appear are Genaro, a guitar-based band who are an example of the label’s boundary-pushing ethos in the definition of electronica,

and arguably the label’s most celebrated artist, Christ.. Christ.’s performances heavily feature live instrumentation, and is one of the few acts to have been asked to perform an encore on John Peel’s show. [Scott Ramage]

comprising of Switch style glitched up figit grooves. The Bongo is better known for their reggae, punk, and DnB nights, and must be pleased with an exciting electro player like Duke hitting their decks. [Lara Moloney]

7PM-10PM, FREE

11PM–3AM, £5

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SCRATCH, THE BONGO CLUB, EDINBURGH, 7 DEC Edinburgh’s scene gets a much-needed shot in the arm, thanks to the return of the mighty Scratch, the original East Coast headz convention, for a completely exclusive oneoff show. Scratch are bringing together US beat pioneer J-Zone, whose releases on the Maid Ent label ensured him legendary status among fans of underground hip-hop, and the unparalleled decksmanship of Australian DMC champion DJ $heep. Under their moniker XxxTra Chee$e, they deliver a two-hour hip-hop show combining raw beats, the lightning fast mixes of DJ $heep, and the off-kilter, lunatic humour that made J-Zone’s Ign’ant Mix series so sought after. The XxxTra Chee$e experience is a culture clash of comedy, turntablism and dancefloor urgency. Fuelled by classic beats from the 70s, 80s and 90s, including slepton hip-hop classics, the show is the brainchild of two DJs / producers whose list of collaborators (everyone from Celph Titled to Q Bert, from Prince Paul to Premier) is literally a who’s who of classic hip-hop. Quite apart from that, what would compel you to miss the reuniting of Scratch residents Richie Rufftone (5 times Scottish DMC champ), Blag1 (Xplicit) and Lyley, for this one-of-a-kind rap spectacular? Pack this one out, mo’fos! [Bram Gieben] 11PM-3AM, £8+BF / MORE ON THE DOOR WWW.MYSPACE.COM/XXXTRACHEESE WWW.MYSPACE. COM/BLAG1

DUKE DUMONT, ON/OFF THE BONGO, EDINBURGH, 8 NOV

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Following on from last month’s debut, The Bongo has secured 2006’s Diesel U Music Award winner, Duke Dumont to kick off their next event. His well known tracks like Lean ‘n’ Bounce, promoted recently by Erol Alkan, will be getting the treatment to try and establish On/Off as an electro night to be reckoned with. With a debut EP expected from Turbo Recordings in the next few months you may get a glimmer of what is to come from Duke Dumont, with a predicted set

by Sarah Hunter

SEASON ONE Ross finds he is getting divorced. “I just want to be married again” he sighs as Rachel rushes into Central Perk in full bridal white. You just knew it was going to be good. Then Chandler pipes up “and I just want a million dollars!” Bang! Brilliant. We learn of Ross’ long-term crush on Rachel Green, teen beauty queen. But Ross has other problems what with his pregnant lesbian ex-wife and all. Monica is a clean-freak and Phoebe is a ditzy hippie-chick. Chandler meets the legend that is Janice (Oh. My. God!) and Phoebes loses her great love David to Minsk. The series ends, as they often do, with a Ross and Rachel crunch moment. Rachel eagerly awaits his return at the airport – that favourite comedy romance location – with viewers hardly less eager to see them get together.

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NO ONE TOLD YOU LIFE WAS GOING TO BE THIS WAY

SEASON TWO Mwah ha ha ha the writers cackle, you thought with our million dollar success we’d tie that one in a little bow for you? Dream on. Ross arrives back. Alas, he is accompanied! Julie is on the scene. Chandler and Joey fight over the insane Eddie while poor Joey, elevated briefly to the dizzying heights of small-screen stardom, finds his character Dr Drake Ramoray reluctantly plummeting down an elevator shaft. Meanwhile Rachel is getting drunk and leaving incriminating messages on answering machines. Haven’t we all? She’s over him. Or is she? The kiss! The list! The lobsters unite! Monica’s love-life is also aflame when that moustachioed not-so-silver fox sweeps her off her feet. And then puts her abruptly back down again. No kids? No deal. Chandler and Janice are back together – did I mention they’d split? And Phoebe has discovered Frank Jr, her bizarre wee brother, but her father is AWOL. Whatever next? SEASON THREE The end of the world as we know it. Mark enters. The break. Ross and Rachel are no more. Monica’s millionaire chooses big burly men over her in his quest to become ultimate fighting champion. The chick and the duck complete Joey and Chandler’s happiness and Phoebe finds her mommy, also Phoebe. Ross dates the soon-tobe-bald Bonnie and the series ends at the beach as Ross and Rachel teeter on the verge of coupledom again.

SEASON FOUR They teeter, briefly fall in and then fall out again. “We were on a break!” Tsk tsk, Ross. What a way to treat your true love. The JoeyKathy-Chandler love triangle commences and ends in a broken heart for our king of comedy. The girls win their apartment back with a one minute kiss and Ross ruins his own wedding by saying Rachel instead of Emily at the altar. The evening ends better for Chandler and Monica when they get it on. Poor Phoebe has been knocked up by her brother, in an asexual kind of way, and awaits the birth of triplets.

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DVD Friends Seasons 1-10 Boxset

SEASONS FIVE TO NINE Alas! Space is short and so the latter series must get shorter shrift. Chandler and Monica marry but can’t get pregnant. Joey finally gets back on Days of Our Lives and falls in love for the first time. With Rachel! Who’s been pregnant with and had Ross’ child after a one night stand. When will they learn?! Phoebe and Mike meet, fall in love, then break up. David comes back and is going to propose but finds Mike in his way! Poor David, but Mike is cuter, and good at table tennis. Ross fancies Charlie but she’s with Joey and Rachel fancies Joey but he’s with Charlie. Then Charlie dumps Joey and gets together with Ross, and Rachel and Joey kiss. Yum! SEASON TEN The last one. What will happen!? Ach, it was pretty obvious from the word go wasn’t it? Still, we’ve enjoyed the ride. Rachel and Joey last about a nanosecond and Charlie and Ross aren’t far behind them. Phoebe and Mike get married, so sweet, stars and snow and a smelly dog. Chandler and Monica manage to adopt not one but two babies despite not being a doctor and a reverend and Rachel moves to Paris. Nearly. The airport dash, Ross this time, through not one but two! But Rachel? Rachel. Gets. On. The. Plane. Madness! But then she gets off. And gets back with Ross again. For the last time. We hope. What a time they had! And us, right along with them. How can we ever forget them? Well, not easily with this bloody box set that’s for sure. RELEASE DATE: 7 NOV WWW.FRIENDSTV.COM

SHANGHAI, EDINBURGH, 9 NOV Shanghai is building a reputation for importing top punterdrawing house clubs and artists, and this month they welcome the not-so-innocent Miss Moneypenny’s to its roster. This year is also the 20th anniversary of the club, having been formed in 1987 by Michael, Jim and Dermot Ryan with Lee Garrick. It originally launched in association with Chuff Chuff raves, and held its first party on the Pride of the Midlands steam ship before moving indoors to greater success and now puts on over 20 club nights a month across the world, bringing the Chuff Chuff parties back to life twice a year. The club is also well known for its attitudes to clubbing, and goes all out to create glamourous venues equipped with glamourous dancers for a glamourous clientele. Put the sparkly togs on! [Struan Otter] 10PM–3AM, £5/£6 HTTP://WWW.LEMONDEHOTEL.CO.UK/SHANGHAI

IVAN SMAGGHE

ACCESS, CABARET VOLTAIRE, EDINBURGH, 16 NOV Last year Ivan Smagghe parted ways with Arnaud Reboutini and their live dance act Blackstrobe to concentrate on DJing, presumably not interested in carrying on the band as the dodgy electro-kraut-rock outfit they had become. This new found freedom has given Smagghe the chance to come back to Scotland and two of his favourite clubs, rocking the Sub Club in August, where he was previously the only DJ trusted to fill in for Twitch at Optimo, and this month at Access. It’s hard to know what to expect from the French genre jumper; his most recent mix The Dysfunctional Family with Chloe included everything from alternative rock to industrial techno. So whilst it’s always best to expect the unexpected, chances are we’ll be treated to the freshest European underground house and techno mixed by one of the masters of the trade. Don’t forget The Digital Playboy (fiction.podbean.com), Etos (Access), Monterey Jack (Bloc/Briton) and JD Pyz will be making up the support ranks. [Peter Walker] 11PM-3AM, £8 MEMBERS/£10

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THEATRE EDITORIAL A new game

TOP 5 EVENTS 1. THEY MAKE THESE NOISES ARCHES THEATRE COMPANY

A FULL HALF CENTURY ON FROM ITS FIRST PERFORMANCE, THEATRE WORKSHOP IS TAKING A NEW PRODUCTION OF ENDGAME ON TOUR GARETH K. VILE TALKS TO DIRECTOR ROBERT RAE TO SEE IF BECKETT’S ABSURDIST MASTERPIECE STILL MAKES (NON)SENSE...

Surveying the kinetic sculptures that litter the set, Robert Rae reflects on the political context of Beckett’s post-apocalyptic Endgame: “France was involved in Algeria, in Indo-China: the details of the holocaust had come out and intellectuals were asking what could cause a civilised people to behave like this. A war was being waged without popular support, and artists were turning inwards to try to understand. The situation could be seen to be very similar to now.” Beckett’s reputation as a relentlessly bleak and disorientating author, more concerned with philosophy than notions of plot or character, ensure that he is always a controversial choice. For a company like Theatre Workshop, which has a tradition of community work and explicit political drama, Endgame suggests a new direction. But Rae is convinced that the apparently abstract can have as much engagement as more obvious approaches. “Artists work from where they are - there is a place for the documentary, like our recent film Trouble Sleeping which looked at the experience of refugees in Edinburgh. But Endgame explores where behaviour comes from.” Rae doesn’t regard Beckett as either a simple miserabilist or a philosopher using theatre as a lecture hall. “I’ve been using his notebooks - and he says that you can’t act philosophy!” Instead, Beckett was an original dramatist who had a serious message. Combining Beckett with the ethos of Theatre Workshop works to the advantage of both. The production is also a collaboration with Glasgow’s Sharmanka, reviewing Rae’s working partnership with activist and film-maker Nabil Shaban. Rae has updated Beckett’s fantasy of nuclear devastation with the modern fear of climate change, emphasising the play’s continued relevance. At the same time, it challenges the perception of Theatre Workshop as a worthy bastion of left-wing agitprop, taking the company into darker, more profound territory.

Sharmanka’s sculptures, will be like organic parts of the mechanical whole, suggesting all sorts of allusions and symbolism. Rae is also excited about working with Nabil Shaban and Gary Robson, whom he describes as “two of the most important actors in Britain.” Both have certainly pushed the envelope of disability in theatre - Shaban as a Dr Who bad-guy and film-maker, and Gary Robson in his fringe show. Having worked together on Threepenny Opera, Rae was keen to offer them the chance to take on different roles and to challenge Beckett’s use of disability within the play. Rae is quick to recall that Beckett was interested in the performance rather than the text in itself, and Robson and Shaban bring their personal histories to bear on what could be a trite metaphor. Part of Theatre Workshop’s remit since 2000 has been to include disabled actors; in Endgame, this commitment will collide with a script’s use of disability as part of the plot. Rae is full of praise for his actors, “they have been incredibly honest, and this play takes us to some dark places.” And it is in this juxtaposition of the actor’s disabilities with the play’s similar themes that Rae’s Endgame will be most awkward. For another company, this might be a halfbaked attempt to tie in themes. However, this fits with Theatre Workshop’s tradition and represents an interesting approach to Beckett. Over at the Arches, Andy Arnold has been re-inventing Beckett for his venue with spectacular success, although he rarely escapes the austere depression that cages the characters. While

the 1970s celebrated Godot, Happy Days and Eh Joe as cutting edge drama, Beckett has gradually ossified into a golem of the theatrical universe. Indeed, as a set-text in the Highers, he is often seen through a fug of half digested pass notes and stale smoke, the last modernist to moan about the death of God before everybody stopped caring. Robert Rae is too ambitious to be held back by these concerns. His Beckett has a warm engagement with his society and his notorious misery is a clarion call to the audience. Rae admits that “he has only really appealed to me as I have got older - and Beckett was older when he started to write plays.” Rather, Rae is striving to unearth a subtle sophistication in Endgame that is sometimes hidden by its out-there scenario. Rae and his talented cast have a difficult task, to balance their vision against the author’s, and to ensure that the discomfort they evoke is not unbearable. Yet, even in rehearsals, there is the sense that two very different sorts of theatre are being fused in an original manner. At the very least, Sharmanka’s art will clank and chatter out entertainment. At best, this production will open up exciting new approaches and shed light on some very complex issues.

ENDGAME OPENS AT THEATRE WORKSHOP EDINBURGH ON THURSDAY 1 NOV TO 3 NOV, 6 & 7 NOV AND THEN TOURS SCOTLAND FINISHING AT THE ARCHES IN GLASGOW ON 21 TO 23 NOV. WWW.THEATRE-WORKSHOP.COM WWW.SHARMANKA.COM

THE ARCHES, GLASGOW, 7 - 16 NOV

The James Kelman season at The Arches continues.

2. THE PEARLFISHER THE TRAVERSE THEATRE COMPANY THE TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH UNTIL 10 NOV

Philip Howard marks his swansong as artistic director at The Trav with this tale of gypsy poachers in the north of Scotland.

3. FLIGHT PATH OUT OF JOINT/BUSH THEATRE, THE TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH, 6 & 10 NOV

Young playwright David Watson’s tale of brotherly love in a broken home.

4. VENUS AS A BOY NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND CITIZENS THEATRE, GLASGOW, UNTIL 10 NOV

Last chance to catch Tam Dean Burn’s hit adaptation of Luke Sutherland’s novel.

5. ENDGAME THEATRE WORKSHOP, EDINBURGH, 1, 2, 3, 6 & 7 NOV & THE ARCHES, GLASGOW 21 - 23 NOV

New production of Beckett’s twentieth century masterpiece featuring a kinetic set by Sharmanka.

Flight Path Penelope Keith

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With pantomime season revving up for another ye a r, Nove mb er m ay be your last chance to see some theatre that doesn’t featu re Zigg y from Big Brother Eight a s a n u g ly s i s t er or Darius from Pop Idol as Rumpelstiltskin, at least until the New Year. A sobering thought, and motivation enough to give the Autumn Seasons more than a cursory glance. As usual, we’ve tried to speed that process with a couple of likely looking picks this month. First off the blocks is Theatre Workshop’s new touring production of Endgame which opens in Edinburgh at the beginning of the month. Beckett’s bleak vision is about as far removed from contemporary panto as it is possible to get so should provide a welcome vaccine to next month’s pink sugary frills. Meanwhile, The Traverse welcomes budding young auteur David Watson’s play Flight Path. A thoughtful tale of a young man’s attempts to make sense of a world that seems to be pulling in several different directions at once, the production is – according to some - an early chance to see the next David Mamet or Harold Pinter (Watson claims both as inspirations). Also, well worth a punt at the Trav is The Pearlfisher, as featured in this month’s Top 5 productions. It’s Philip Howard’s last play as Traverse Artistic Director after ten years at the helm, so he’s bound to be pulling out all the stops. There was a slew of f lagship productions around Scotland last month and we couldn’t neglect to review them - as usual you’ll find critical notices on all the shows that mattered. Read ‘em. Cut ‘em out and keep ‘em. Just don’t say we didn’t warn you when December comes. [Hugo Fluendy]

Labels Special

Alex Tronic Records - a voice for everyone by James Blake

THE LABELS SERIES CONTINUES WITH EDINBURGH LABEL ALEX TRONIC RECORDS One of Ed i nbu rg h’s pu r veyor s of new electronic music, A lex Tronic Records, is the brainchild of Paul Croan (Mr. Alex T ron ic h i m s el f ) a nd L ou i s e O’M a l ley (A&R and artistic development). The label has been going since 2001, when Tronic - w ho h a d b e en p r o duc i n g for ot her indie labels, such as Koyote and Peyote - embarked upon his debut solo album. Laying down tracks in his home studio, Tronic employed vocalist Asa Seljestad on most tracks. The resultant buzz of activity meant a steady procession of participants trooping back and for th from Tronic’s home, so in June of 2006, Tronic moved his recording equipment to a new premises in Edinburgh’s Hillside Crescent and Alex Tronic Records was born.

At present, the label is still very much a smallscale operation which suits Paul and Louise. It enables them to speak to their artists directly, and Alex Tronic himself is a client. Label mates currently include Keser and newest signing Roy’s Iron DNA, signed after Paul saw them perform at The Liquid Room in Edinburgh. Their debut album is an upcoming project and is described by Paul as “an electronic Stone Roses.” The debut album by Leeds-based knob twiddler/producer Marvin A. Wilson, entitled Being Here, is also intended for release before the end of the year and is described by Paul as “simply beautiful.”

The label is one of an ever-increasing number which are springing up all over the world in response to major label domination of the Work i ng out of thei r H i l l side ba se, Pau l marketplace. As Paul puts it, “We will not and Louise have thus far released postrock be afraid to give anything new a voice.” The electronica duo Keser’s debut album, Esoteric label has enjoyed exposure on Radio 1 and Escape, to respectable airplay and reviews, through publications such as Future Music and and this year also saw the DJ Maga zi ne, lead i ng start of the A lex Tronic increased exposure “WE WILL PUT OUT to Compilations series, i n t h e m a r ke t p l a c e . MUSIC AS LONG AS IT’S You’ll find Alex Tronic prompted by Louise wishing to put out more GOOD AND IS BASICALLY products in HM V and new music by local artists, KIND OF ELECTRONIC IN V i r g i n , a s w e l l a s as she was “fed up with i nd ie outlets such a s NATURE” all the boring crap on the Avalanche. radio.” Plans for the future include a trip to the South This promotion of new music by new, local acts by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas to is very much at the heart of the label’s ethos. develop worldwide distribution contacts to the A lex Tronic Volume 1 is a disc awash with USA and Asia, and the debut album from Mr. cold surges of electronica, pounded along by Tronic himself, which is already being mooted insistent basslines. As Paul says: “Our ethos is; for next year. Busy and exciting times ahead! we will put out music as long as it’s good and is basically kind of electronic in nature.” WWW.ALEXTRONICRECORDS.CO.UK

Endgame is set after the end of the world. Hamm, paralytic and blind, is attended by Clov, who dreams of escaping. Locked into a cyclical and abusive mutual dependence, their conversations are ritualistic warfare that can never end. Hamm’s parents are also onstage, legless and living in trashcans. Even a cursory synopsis demonstrates Endgame’s bleak manner, and Beckett’s distinctive absurdity. In many ways, Beckett is an ancestor of contemporary physical theatre and live art: pauses and silence are as eloquent as words and appearance; movement and staging are critical. And while he directed his own works and left clear signposts for future productions, the actual plays demand that the audience interpret the events according to their own experience. By involving Sharmanka in the creation of the set, Rae adds another dimension to the production. Sharmanka are best known for their moving sculptures in GOMA, but also have their own workshop and gallery in Glasgow. Using found objects, bizarre mechanisms and baroque ornamentation, their pieces are both mystifying and humorous, often exploring the Russian heritage of artists Eduard Bersudsky and Tatyana Jakovskaya. Impressed by Rae’s Threepenny Opera in July 2004, they inspired Rae by showing him one of Bersudsky’s pieces based on Endgame. From there, it was a short step to collaboration. “It’s not like asking a designer to fulfil my vision - I had to give them plenty of space, to see what they wanted to do.” Rae is rightly proud of the results and the set could easily stand alone as an exhibition. His actors, who will inhabit

Nabil Shaban (left) and Garry Robson ‘inhabit’ the Sharmanka-designed kinetic set

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A SUPERB OVERALL PRODUCTION

IN UNDERGROUND CLUBS, BEDROOMS AND STUDIOS ACROSS SCOTLAND, A BUNCH OF ARTISTS, PRODUCERS AND VOCALISTS HAVE BEEN STEADILY HONING THEIR SKILLS. THE COLLECTIVE ARE KNOWN AS LUCKYME, AND THE SKINNY GETS THE LOWDOWN Together, LuckyMe are one of the most exciting movements on the Scottish map and are on the rise to national and international acclaim. The meeting of minds took place at an open mic night running at Stereo in Glasgow in 2002. DJ and producer Hudson Mohawke hooked up with an MC called Sum, and together the two went to work on a six-track EP called Lucky Me under the moniker of Surface Empire. The EP was a successful release, selling all 500 that were pressed, but still it was lost amongst the plethora of topnotch artists producing Scottish hip-hop. Back in the lab, Surface Empire dislocated them selves from thei r beloved h ip -hop and expanded their palette to a whole new spectrum of inf luences, taking in grime, electronica, dubstep, B-more and Math rock. Hudson Mohawke suddenly emerged from his chrysalis when his future beats started to leak out into the scene and people began to freak. This year he released the banger Freemo on California’s Ubiquity label and Trace on the Beat Dimensions label. Requests for gigs in Europe and a spot on London’s infamous Plastic People poured in, Gilles Peterson and Mary Anne Hobbes are spinning him and he’s fresh back from representing his skills at The Red Bull Music Academy in October. XLR8R Magazine suggests that we shouldn’t be surprised if “cats like Bloc Party and Radiohead start requesting his remixing skills shortly”. Stretching his musical arm across the water to Dublin, Hudson hooked up with Mike Slott of All City Records. Under the guise of Heralds of Change they started a frenzy of remixes

Ibsen never intended this epic dramatic poem for the stage and having personally spent many a fruitless hour attempting to disentangle this thankless Gordian Knot of troll ridden folk tales, picaresque vicissitudes and over wrought verse I can see his point. Writer Colin Teevan - who previously worked with director Dominic Hill on their acclaimed Monkey - is here to prove us all wrong however with his new adaptation of the tale of the eponymous n’er do well. He eschews the dated satirising of Norwegian mores and concentrates instead on the tale of an everyman youth whose indiscretions, lies, hubris and occasional rape haunt him to his embittered end.

and released a string of vinyls. Together they have collaborated with Maryland’s Oddisee and Low B (one half of Hollertronix). Their new material features Oliver DaySoul – a neo singer who seems to be possessed by Rick James on track Bopgunn.

Out of a bloated and rambling morass of impenetrable, self-indulgent, Scandinavian havering, Teevan manages to fillet a succulent rollmop redolent of Ibsen’s more rec-

Recently a 24-year-old producer from Glasgow joined the ranks of LuckyMe: Rustie, the man who has been causing a whole lot of fuss on the scene. When he dropped, and we mean dropped, his debut EP Rustie: Jagz the Smack on Glasgow’s Stuff Records, it caused a buzz nearly as loud as his beats. The Skinny even gave it five out of five. Impresarios such as Flying Lotus (Warp’s new signing and John Coltrane’s nephew), Modeselektor, Plastician and DJ Ayres all give Rustie the nod for knowhow. Boomkat - the music connoisseurs’ online record store - are positively salivating over Jagz the Smack, hailing it as one of the hottest releases of the year. He’s now impressively ‘Out of Stock’, perhaps not so impressive if you didn’t get a copy. The artist eye of LuckyMe has been appointed to the talented Dominic Flannigan (aka Sum of Surface Empire). Since his first efforts on The Heralds of Change EP he has been unstoppable, laying out 20 cover designs for four independent labels. With a MySpace Top Eight pointing to influences such as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, Dominic is shaping up as a force to be reckoned with in design circles. To get a taste of how the crew get down, make sure you get to their new night Baller$ 5ocial Club in Glasgow, an eclectic night of

T H E A R T S C H O O L ( T H E V I C B A R ), GLASGOW, 9 NOV After years of venue hopping, Glasgow’s Electric Elmininator s have set tle d on a re gula r home of Glasgow Ar t School’s Vic Bar for their semiregular Fortified Sessions. This side of the border the Electric Eliminators are by far and away the clear leaders of dub-bass orientated dance nights, having played host to practically all the big players from the scene’s London heartland, and always on a suitably beefed up rig for the occasion. This latest installment will feature the DJ talents of one of the dubstep’s most formidable talents, Benga. Rightly recognised as one of the founding fathers, this is an opportunity to have your fillings rattled by a true innovator. Come all ye faithful. [Jack McFarlane] 11PM-3AM, £5 GSA/£7 NUS/£8

WAX ON/WAX OFF

Gravious to open the night with big bass dubstep DJ and laptop sets, setting the tone for headliner, Boxcutter. Part of the growing left-of-the-leftfield in electronic music, Boxcutter is a dubstep artist from an IDM gene pool producing trippy melodies over dubby rhythms. Signed to the prestigious Planet Mu, who put out his latest LP Glyphic (released 29 Oct), his pedigree is asserted through his tutelage from label boss and electro musician maestro Mike Paradinas (aka uziq). Sola Perplexus then takes the reins, pushing the evening into 4/4 and breaks territory. A box full of dub-steppin’, break-beatin’, techno-pumpin’ electronic producers. Experience a slice of the most cutting edge electronic music around. [Jack McFarlane] 10.30PM-3AM, £5 ADV/£8 WWW.MYSPACE.COM/BARRYLYNNMUSIC

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I N N E R C IT Y ACI D, TH E S O U N D H AU S GLASGOW, 10 NOV

T h e 20 th a n n i ve r s a r y of Ac i d H o u s e i s b e i n g This promises to be full of “melting, filthy, twisted celebrated this month by the legend himself, DJ Pierre. techno,” as described by organiser and resident Nathaniel Pierre Jones, original member of Phuture, is DJ Dawn Zhu herself, which conjures up images of credited with creating the first acid house EP in 1987 sleazy, swampy voodoo grooves and panoramic and will be getting the crowds tripping out to some city soundscapes. The latter image is particularly classics, as well as showcasing his upcoming album appropriate, given the club’s none-more-direct Afro Acid. With a huge selection of tracks to choose location in its venue at 142 Renfield Street, right in from, Your Only Friend, Got the Bug and The Horn the heart of Glasgow’s city centre. [Jonathan Robert Song will hopefully be featured, and with a 20-year career in house music, an impressive performance is Muirhead] to be expected. Look out for his trademark Squelch 10PM-3AM, FREE B4 11PM/£3 sounds and whet your appetite to hear him perform his first solo ar tist album. The Soundhaus is the BOXCUTTER, SOLA perfect venue to transport you back in time and Inner PERPLEXUS, & GRAVIOUS TRONIC, BLACKFRIARS, GLASGOW, 17 City Acid have made a good call in celebrating their 3rd birthday paying homage to the creator of the subNOV Tronic are normally about live artists and gigs, but genre. Got to be a good one... [Lara Moloney] this is one of their regular if infrequent club nights 11PM-4AM, £9/£11 that offer a slightly heavier approach to proceedings. WWW.INNERCITYACID.CO.UK They’ve brought in local boys Captain Shitbeard and

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ognised pieces, all translated into the gritty vernacular of modern day Scotland which is its new setting. After a dramatic opening wedding scene, what follows never dips in impact or invention. Teevan’s pacey writing craftily guddles his main themes out of the original’s labyrinthine text like a master poacher tickling a trout. The production cheerfully references West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, and lap dancing, and must surely be the first ever Ibsen production to feature a line dancing routine. Greig’s famous score is jettisoned in favour of rock’n’roll and trolls appear as a squad of ‘jakies’ fuelled up on ‘super special extra troll brew’. As the action progresses from the Norwegian woods to the rocky deserts and kasbahs of North Africa the play is notoriously difficult to stage. These problems are deftly side stepped by a complete yet thematically faithful reimagining of the settings. For example, Gynt’s travels are represented as the ravings of a madman consigned to a sanitorium. To purists this might smack of a cop-out but it’s a brave move and it works. It is difficult to single out any single performance from an outstanding cast but honourable mention must go to Keith Fleming as Young Gynt. This is a superb overall production, riveting from the opening bars to the final scene and a triumphant endorsement for theatre as a 21st Century artform. [Adam McCully]

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unadulterated sounds from southern hip-hop to Parisian hyphy. Expect to hear and see more of LuckyMe across radio waves, dancefloors, and T-shirts! Andrew Meza and Nadsroic Live at Baller$ 5ocial Club, The Ivy basement, Glasgow, 16 Nov (time and price tbc), and Rustie with FineArt & Jay P will play Volume! at Synthesis on 24 Nov,

Club Ego (11pm-3am, £tbc) Go to the LuckyMe Website for more info on releases, affiliates and free downloads. WWW.THISISLUCKYME.COM, WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HUDSONMO, WWW.MYSPACE.COM/RUSTIEBEETZ, WWW.

ALGEBRA OF FREEDOM A TIMELY ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS THE SHAMEFUL IGNORANCE IN THE WEST OF THE TRUE NATURE OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH

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While liberal Hollywood attempts to assuage its notional national conscience with a wave of cinematic hand-wringing treating the Iraq debacle and the war on terror, it takes Scottish theatre company 7:84 to tackle the subject head on in typically tough and politically uncompromising style.

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CHEW THE FAT! 10TH BIRTHDAY, SUB CLUB, GLASGOW, 22 NOV Club promotion is all about longevity: some say it’s variety that counts, and there’s no doubt that sometimes one bad booking can lead to catastrophe. But there’s a clubbing force out there that keeps on keeping on, leading from the front and continuing to delight with the right guests and the right mix of exciting acts. Chew the Fat! is proof that something different can work, and has stomped its foot so hard that a ten-year-old print has been left in its wake. For its birthday breaks celebrations, founder Paul Arnold has put together a British tour and in November it lands at the Sub Club. Trevor Loveys, Paul ‘Trouble’ Arnold, Bradley C and Defcon 1 are representing, and anniversary gifts, T-shirts and much more will be available on the night. [Jonny Ogg] 11PM-3AM, £TBC WWW.THESUBCLUB.CO.UK WWW.THEFATCLUB.COM

BONDE DO ROLE AFTER PARTY

THE ARCHES, GLASGOW, 16 NOV Glasgow’s Arches venue has just announced a oneoff exclusive event to celebrate the Scottish arrival of one of the hottest new bands on the scene today – Bonde Do Role. Brazilian by nationality and signed to Domino Records, home to other such hipsters as CSS, the band proffer a uniquely European form of funk and have been raising the roofs in venues all over the world for over a year now with their Baile Funk sound, both through their own tours and as a support act to the likes of the aforementioned CSS. The masterly electro-house purveyors Speaker Junk and the Bebado DJs, who will be spinning a mix of electro, d&b and ‘ethno techno’ from Africa, Brazil and the Balkans, will be hosting the after party on the wheels

of steel alongside Boom Monk Ben and Example. [Jonathan Robert Muirhead] 10PM-3AM, £7.50 WWW.THEARCHES.CO.UK

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The Algebra of Freedom, written by Indian born Raman Mundair – whose recent CV includes the National Theatre of Scotland Young Company’s Side Effects - follows the stories of policeman Tony and taxi driver Parvez. Tony has a problematic Brazilian flatmate who seems reluctant to leave and whom Tony seems oddly unable to get rid of. Tony is also a member of the Mets SO 17 armed response unit; the self-same outfit currently on trial at The Old Bailey for Orwellian ‘health and safety issues’ following the July 2005 shooting of Charles de Menezes in Stockwell tube station. Meanwhile, Simon Rivers - making his professional debut as Parvez - is caught on the horns of a dilemma. Oblique references to “what happened in Palestine” and his radicalised friend Waheed - played by Qaseem Ansari - push him in the direction of the more extreme interpretation of Jihad, while the moderate voice of his wife Fatima - played by Maryam Hamidi - attempts to pull him back from this

ultimately destructive direction. While these scenes are a timely attempt to address the shameful ignorance in the West of the true nature of the Islamic faith, unalloyed didacticism doesn’t make for great drama. There is plenty here for the less politically motivated audience however: David Sneddon’s minimalist set (aided by James Gardner and Will Potts’ nifty lighting) serves alternately as boozer, two front rooms complete with telly, and a taxi; and it makes for slick, quick cut scene changes. Jo Ronan’s direction, ably assisted by Assistant Director-Movement Faroque Khan, creates a swift, almost balletic feel and the most convincing punch up on stage this side of the Gallagher brothers. So, while the play is both literally and in the clichéd sense hard hitting, this is no Smeaton-esque attempt to put the boot in, and instead sets about this complex problem with a welcome sensitivity. [Adam McCully] THE ARCHES RUN ENDED WWW.784THEATRE.COM WWW,THEARCHES.CO.UK

PRESSURE, THE ARCHES, GLASGOW, 30 NOV

Pressure is celebrating its 9th bir thday and who better to blow out the candles than the techno King Pin himself, Laurent Garnier. But just in case he doesn’t have enough breath in those pioneering lungs of his, the thoughtful people at Pressure have asked Slam, Billy Nasty and Dave Mills to give him a helping hand. In recent years Garnier has limited the number of sets he plays so this is a rare, and very welcomed, opportunity to see one of the great European techno DJs. With Slam, Billy Nasty and Dave Mills also spinning on the decks, Pressure may be about to throw the best birthday bash of the year. Christmas is around the corner and I think it is important that we take a step back from our hectic lives and ask ourselves a very simple question: will I be able to live with myself if I miss this? [Franck Martin] 10.30PM–3AM, £TBA

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Giving it the

HERBAL REMEDIES SNAPPED SYNAPSES, HALF-REMEMBERED IDEAS AND SENTIMENTAL SELF-PITY The Arches Artistic Director Andy Arnold may have been unwise to have compared James Kelman to Samuel Beckett, since Herbal Remedies struggles to escape from the shadow of the Franco-Irish absurdist. Two tramps argue and chat, trapped in a situation that they barely comprehend: Waiting for McGodot. This is a shame. Despite the existential emptiness and circular conversations, Kelman manipulates Glasgow vernacular into a humorous poetry. Mate and Crutch - played with pantomime enthusiasm by Laurie Ventry and David McKay - are recognisable from the banks of the Clyde: all snapped synapses, half-remembered ideas and sentimental self-pity, they bicker their way through religion, sectarianism and integrity. A chance encounter with possible alcoholic and advocate of women’s rights Clarissa challenges their friendship and deepest beliefs. Avoiding the opaque symbolism of Beckett’s plays and infusing the dialogues with a very specific West Coast sensibility, Kelman totters between realism and absurdism. As funny and confusing as a late night bus journey to

Govan, if slightly less dangerous, Kelman infuses the mundane with a dramatic dignity. Crutch’s lost leg becomes the butt of jokes, the source of his failures even as it defines him, while Mate is a philosopher of the trivial, weaving dimly grasped ideas into an unconvincing tapestry of morality. Only in Clarissa does the play suggest change or movement. Andrea Gibb’s performance lends a harsh focus to the two men’s rambling, provoking them to question themselves in an accent that sometimes strays from Glasgow across the Atlantic. Rapidly asserting herself, she adds momentum to the banter, undermining the men’s self-deceptions. The abrupt ending gives little away, except to suggest that the apparent resolution is merely temporary and will only lead to more confusion. A suitably downbeat and unsatisfying finale to a play that dazzles with language, touches on many complex ideas, yet offers few answers. [Gareth K Vile]

(green) finger IS GARDENING THE NEW ROCK AND ROLL? HUGO FLUENDY SPEAKS TO THE WRITER OF NEW DRAMA FLIGHT PATH WITH HIS OWN TAKE ON TEENAGE REBELLION

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RUPTURE A GRIMLY HIP PRIMER FOR MODERN DAY NOIR A young and partisan crowd packs the bleachers of Traverse One’s steeply banked auditorium and their roared appreciation for Scottish theatre’s equally youthful star Davey Anderson’s latest offering is also testimony to the current vitality of Scottish theatre. The youthful vigour of the audience is matched by this briskly paced production. Rupture clocks in at around an hour and 20 minutes but seems to zip by in half the time. Snappily choreographed, the action clips along at all four corners of the stage simultaneously with the narrative focus jumping from scene to scene while all the main players remain in view. Billed as an ‘urban thriller’ the slick publicity claims it ‘takes a scalpel to the shiny surface of city life’. Sure enough, Rupture’s themes serve as a grimly hip primer for modern day noir; auto-erotic asphyxiation, Eastern European black labour, sexual fetishism, nuisance phone calls and surveillance are all on parade here. The basic premise too is classic noir in its conception: seedy businessman Stewart – competently played by Brian Ferguson – is driven to increasing criminality in a desperate gamble to rescue his failing business, and he is therefore ultimately doomed. Stewart is supplying cheap, unlicensed labour - procured by his scheming Polish cleaner Monika, whose halting English is played rather too convincingly by Agnieszka Bresler - to unscrupulous construction firms. True to form, it all goes fatally wrong and Stewart is caught, literally, with his pants down. So far, so enjoyable you say. With the seamy underbelly of a city’s sexual and criminal demi-monde duly dissected surely this National Theatre of Scotland Workshop and Traverse Theatre co-production achieves what it set out to do? Well, the clue – and a ‘tec play deserves a ‘tec-style review perhaps – is in

the previous sentence. As with most devised pieces, Rupture is brimming with ideas and neat actorly flourishes. But like everything designed by committee, the compromises made to ensure a successful collaboration can torpedo the chances of a successful production. With every unexpected turn of the plot you leave another avenue unexplored. Sometimes the sheer erudition of the collaborative approach dictates a certain superficiality as potentially important themes are introduced only to be discarded in favour of the next bright, shiny thing that comes along. For example, much of the play takes place in Stewart’s office building, and Neil McKinven’s comic turn as the simpleton security guard is a pivotal character. His bank of CCTV screens is begging to be used in an ingenious plot device that simultaneously highlights society’s growing concern with privacy and civil liberties and takes us another inexorable step towards our denouement. But after an initial scene they feature only as just so much furniture. And the sudden introduction of a supernatural element to the plot in the final scenes as Stewart’s ghost makes mobile calls from beyond the veil - the now deceased Stewart is glimpsed wielding his phantom phone from behind a gauzy curtain - is palpably risible. At its best with writers such as Hammet and Chandler, Noir reveals dark and uncomfortable truths about our selves and our societies at the same time as being highly entertaining. Rupture only manages entertaining, but if that’s the worst you can say about a play then things aren’t half bad for cast and company. [Hugo Fluendy] TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH RUN ENDED WWW.NATIONALTHEATRESCOTLAND.COM WWW.TRAVERSE.CO.UK

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You know the kind of day, week, month, or in this case year, you get when you’re just not going to take anymore and the only escape left is a spot of gardening? No? You’re young and think gardening is strictly for dusty geriatrics whiling away their retirements in the potting shed, and that rebellion is a dish best served with three key ingredients: sex, drugs and rock and roll? Well think again; and while you’re doing it catch Flight Path at The Traverse this month.

groups. Certainly he is busy. Birmingham Rep has commissioned a piece for May 2008 which is currently in development under the working title Green Belt and he has been invited back to the prestigious Royal Court in the New Year as a writer in residence under its Detachments scheme. It’s a lot of pressure to put on a young writer but Watson has his own mechanisms to deal with the weight of expectation.

“I think there is an element of terror when you finish something,” he explains. “You’re used to Flight Path is the second thinking about something HE FINDS HAPPINESS which is very fully formed, play from the pen of 22 year old theatre w underTHROUGH GARDENING being in rehearsals and what kind David Watson. His first not and suddenly you’re back UNDERNEATH THE was staged as part of the to square one. I suppose the FLIGHT PATH AT Royal Court Young Writers key is not to rush into anyHEATHROW Festival when he was just thing new and not to write a 17. Co-produced by pioneerplay for the sake of writing a ing new writing theatre companies Out of Joint play. I think you know deep down when you’re and The Bush Theatre, the play follows exactly ready to embark on a new draft. Actually, I a year in the life of Jonathan, an alienated 18 spend a lot of time procrastinating, but in a year old whose father has just left the family healthy way, making lots of notes and thinking home and whose social worker mother is too about ideas. Then writing a draft doesn’t take busy helping other people’s families to pay a huge amount of time.” much heed to her own. His father’s departure coincides with the arrival of his twin brother Watson speaks with the calm authority and who has Down’s Syndrome. confident maturity of a writer twice his age, a writer whose characters eschew clichéd teenWatson takes up the story: “Initially, it’s the age rebellion in favour of the quieter pleasures story of Jonathan’s rebellion against these con- of hardy perennials. He name checks Pinter straints he suddenly finds himself under. He’s and Mamet for their razor sharp dialogue as being pressurised into concentrating on his A particular inspirations but it’s clear that his levels but he’s not sure which path he wants time at Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court to take. In the end, it actually turns into quite stood him in good stead. “Out of modern a positive story. He wants to do good by his playwrights, my biggest influence is Simon brother and wants to care for him in a way that Stephens who tutored me at the Royal Court his parents are not caring for him so it becomes and is really a fantastic teacher. The main quite a different story in the end. thing is to keep writing and cultivate a core belief in yourself. These days there are so “There’s 12 scenes covering 12 months from many young writers’ schemes, there’s a real January to December, and, well, he buys an al- infrastructure that there wasn’t ten or fifteen lotment. He returns home from this residential years ago. The opportunities are definitely unit where he hasn’t been very happy and the there: it’s just about keeping at it!” only thing that he’s got from this residential place is a love of gardening. He finally finds happiness through gardening underneath the FLIGHT PATH, THE TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH, 6 - 10 flight path at Heathrow.” NOV The play opened in September in London and while the reviews have veered between handsin-the-air, full on rave to the offhand they are almost unanimous in their prediction of a bright future for this graduate of the Birmingham Rep Transmission and Royal Court young writers

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THEATRE

It’s all just house to me

Club profile - quick-fire Q & A with

Bruce Fummey

by Liam Arnold

ONUR ÖZER’S DEBUT ALBUM, KAşMIR, HAS JUST DROPPED ON VAKANT AND COULD WELL SPELL THE END OF MINIMAL BASHING. THE SKINNY INVESTIGATES Ignoring the fact that Steve Reich, Robert Hood and of course Basic Channel have been exper imenting w ith the concept of ‘minimalism’ in music for years now, t her e’s a me d i a ob s e s s ion w it h t he current techno scene that sees journalists wanking themselves stupid over any kind of stripped-back, refined electro, frothing at the mouth over even the most boring clicks. It’s a bit unnerving when even the Guardian starts running articles about ‘Minimal’ and chatting knowledgeably about Magda, Hawtin and Villalobos. Berlin-based label Vakant has been tarred with the minimal brush since its inception, and with Alex Smoke’s dryly titled Shminimal and ring. click.ting EPs, pushing to the limit the musical possibilities of, er, rings, clicks and tings, it’s not all that difficult to see why. Kaşmir is a compelling argument against such accusations. Sure, the beats are stripped back, but Özer incorporates A rabic and A frican percussion, flutes, a glockenspiel, marimbas and more into his sound. “I don’t believe genres such as Berlin minimal... For me it is only house in the end,” he tells us. There are a lso ci nematic i nf luences, soundscapes and a hefty dose of weirdness with track titles like Terpsichoerean Echoes. He downplays this widescreen approach, claiming that his mission statement has been simply “to put little bit of Turkish-style melodies on top of techno music.” Considering that his

Breezeblock mix took Angelo Badalamenti’s Mullholland Drive theme, Shackleton’s Blood on My Hands and Pink Floyd, as well as that non-existent Berlin Minimal, that seems a pretty modest summary.

to the aforementioned EPs the tracks are more spaced out and explore a much greater depth of sound, even if this does allow for a couple of slightly dodgy Bossa Nova breaks.

The emperor’s favourite cloth comes from Germany, and though Vakant throw their best parties in Berlin, Özer created Kaşmir in Istanbul, a cultural crossroads for thousands of years and a unique place to be making music. The title alone implies division, referencing the frontline of a collision between cultures and philosophies. “Making music in Istanbul is much more cool for me,” he says, “because you are away from everything, and making music in a city which has millions of ways to get inspired. These inspirations are not so easy to get in Europe.” Whilst it’s easy to see the Arabic influences in Kaşmir, Onur maintains that he’s keen to take in all influences and all forms of music. “It can be from [the] US, it can be from Germany, or it can be from Portugal, or wherever it came from.”

But this isn’t some bongos-and-congas ‘world music’ for middle class techno fans; it’s still uncompromising dance music. “Whichever style I make, my main focus is always the dancefloor. In my opinion, if a track has a good groove, even if it is slow, fades out, or even [if] it is fast and rave, it is dancef loor for sure... my attempt w a s t o not get aw ay f rom t he dancefloor.”

T he T w i l ig ht a nd Red Caba ret EPs used obscure sounds and key signatures, but they only hinted at Özer’s psychedelic potential, wh i lst Kaşmir d ives fu l l leng th i nto the spectrum of musical influences drawn from both A rabic a nd Eu ropea n cu ltu res. T he album format (Vakant’s first artist album) has allowed Özer to “start to put [in] more from me, more from my musical wisdom,” and to indulge this fascination for unique sounds and musical cross-breeding. In comparison

COMEDIAN/ ORGANISER BRUCE FUMMEY GIVES US THE SKINNY ON THE COMEDY SCENE NORTH OF THE TAY NAME OF COMEDY CLUB? Just Laugh WHEN/ WHERE? Fat Sam’s, Dundee on the first

Saturday of the month. I also run one in Perth at City Nightclub the first Friday of the month. WHEN DID IT START? I star ted

the club in Perth in September 2004, then the one in Dundee in March 2005.

as a St Johnstone supporter Dundee is often the butt of my jokes too.

Scotland has brought us some truly immortal comedy institutions: the Edinburgh Fringe, Ivor Cutler, Billy Connelly and those see-you-jimmy hats. A Scottish comedy awards ceremony would certainly be more enjoyable to attend than, say, a Cornish one. Rory McGrath can only spread his talent so far.

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THE SKINNY CATCHES UP WITH SWABY FROM THE HEAVY AS THEY PREPARE FOR THEIR FIRST MAJOR UK TOUR, TO FIND OUT HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THEIR FIRST LP AND HOW DRESS REHEARSALS ARE GOING

With a little trepidation and much interest as to what the answer might reveal, The Skinny asks firstly what the band’s views on Great Vengeance are on the brink of its release. Swaby’s response is eager, to say the least: “It’s an amazing offering. It kind of feels like we’ve laid our hearts on the line a little bit.”

Swaby’s equally keen to state how well rehearsals for the upcoming tour are going, which will be the first time The Heavy have attempted to translate the album’s rough and ready funk into the live arena, although much of the material gives the impression of having been well and truly road-tested before it was committed to tape. “It sounds amazing! It’s a different kettle of fish live but the same kind of vibe. It’s dirtier, it’s heavier, it’s unnecessary!” he laughingly enthuses. “It’s like five wolves howling at the moon.

There’s a lot of howling going on!” As the interview draws to a close, The Skinny wonders if Swaby will be drawn on what the main reference points, musical or otherwise, were on this album? “We are just basically into dirty music. The title comes from us having to have worked so hard and having people come along and say ‘we can help you,’ ‘we can do this,’ ‘we can do that,’ but they were kind of hindering the progress of what we were doing. It was only when we became kind of self-sufficient that we realised, we can do this, we don’t have to compromise.” GREAT VENGEANCE AND FURIOUS FIRE IS OUT 5 NOV ON COUNTER RECORDS WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THEHEAVY73

How big a role does emotion play in music-making for The Heavy? Swaby is very candid: “Every single one of those tracks is heartfelt. Over this period in our lives [the album was some two years in the making], a lot of things kinda happened, like going in and out of relationships and I think it kind of tells on that, you know?” Great Vengeance is striking primarily for its brevity. Tracks rarely stray over the four-minute mark and the whole album clocks in at just 33 minutes. With so much of the album being so closely tied in with affairs of the heart, the question of favourite tracks seems a slightly unfair one to pose, but Swaby wastes no time in answering. “I think Doin’ Fine, just because it reminds me of the point in my life when that was written [Swaby was going through the break-up of a relationship]. It’s just about having to call it quits. It’s about how it might hurt like hell, but you still gotta get through it. I love tracks like Coleen as well, because of the whole kind of ‘work’ culture that you’ve got in the UK, which is kind of unnecessary, so I like that because you can laugh at it.” The very dirty, funky sound of the album lends it an organic quality, something Swaby is only too keen to expand upon. “We love rough, we love dirty. We live by this rule that, if it sounds

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WHO’S YOUR FAVOURITE COMIC WHO HAS PLAYED YOUR GIG? Probably Paul Sinha. Not only is he a

fantastic comic, but he is a great guy. Even after a IF.com nomination he still comes and plays our provincial clubs. He fills the room and goes down a storm. JUST LAUGH, FAT SAM’S NIGHT CLUB, DUNDEE, 8 DECEMBER, 9PM, £9, FEATURING COMEDIANS BOB DOOLALLY, DES CLARK AND GARY AND STU’S IMPROV GROUP. WWW.JUSTLAUGH.CO.UK

SCOTTISH COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR 2007 FINAL by Robert Wringham

KASMIR IS OUT NOW ON VAKANT. WWW.VAKANT.NET

right, that’s it. I’m a huge fan of things like Memphis soul. I love huge horn breaks. What we did with the album was to try and find horn breaks and then have them replayed. We just dirtied them up a little bit more.”

WHICH CITY IS THE PUT DOWN EQUIVALENT IN DUNDEE? Anything about Fifers usually does the

REVIEW

The Heavy

One of the most exciting acts on the current British dance music scene, The Heavy have just released their debut album, Great Vengeance And Furious Fire, to major critical acclaim and much appreciation from Britain’s dancefloor inhabitants. The disc positively pulsates with excitement and trepidation as the band mix and match styles such as club, electro and trip-hop in their quest to define their own particular sound.

Although it has to be said that Dundonians are an extremely friendly, down to earth people who have the ability to laugh at themselves. It’s been noticeable when I’ve handed out flyers for the Just Laugh comedy club outside a Billy Connolly show in Perth and been told by people that they were ‘not interested’. WHAT?! But in Dundee people take the flyers in the street and say ‘Thanks very much.’ It’s a mark of how open Dundonians are compared to my own home town.

trick. IN OTHER COMEDY CLUBS IN SCOTLAND DUNDEE IS A PUNCHLINE, CAN YOU DEFEND THE CITY? To be honest

Following the release of Kaşmir, Onur will be working on more EPs, bootlegs and one-sided rarities to be released on Vakant. For only their second CD release, Kaşmir is a bold choice for them, and Özer intends to concentrate on a more streamlined sound in his next works. It’s a challenge for one artist to control and be so heavily invested in a label’s creative direction, but i f Kaşmir’s a ny thi ng to go by, the future’s bright for this not-so minimal label.

Dirtying the funk

THEATRE/COMEDY

COMEDY

Onur Özer:

And enjoyable it was. Personal favourites were resident Australian Rowan Campbell and Glasgow’s uninominal Teddy. Rowan’s routine looked at how Australians are often seen dismissed as a nation of petty convicts (“Quick, hide the bread”) and featured a marvellously twisted explanation of how the incriminating indiscretion of his Scottish ancestor was actually a powerful political statement. I’ll leave it to your imagination to figure that one out.

terial about his ugly son. Second and third prizes went to Greenock’s Jay Lafferty (the shortlist’s only comedienne) and Aberdeen’s Gus Tawse whose act includes a great skit about the death of his wife - “I can’t help but think I’m partly responsible. I beat her to death with a shovel”. All in all, this was a great showcase of Scotland’s upand-coming talent. Look out for them all at the Glasgow comedy festival in March. [Robert Wringham] THE FINALISTS WERE: ROWAN CAMPBELL, SEAN GRANT, SCOTT FORBES, JAY LAFFERTY, SCOTT AGNEW, GUS TAWSE, TEDDY, THE WEE MAN, NIALL BROWNE AND BRATCHY.

Teddy’s routine about an emasculating sexual encounter, which decency forbids we go into here, felt far more honed and refined than many of the night’s acts. While other performers would frequently flutter between unrelated one-liners and a wide sample of random (but undeniably funny) gags, Teddy focused on one perfectly orated story and hung his jokes off it expertly. This is the skill of a talented, thoughtful humourist. A theme of the night, quite rightly, was critic-baiting. The large audience would periodically boo the X Factor-style judging panel. YouTube’s famous ‘Wee Man’ berated Chortle’s Steve Bennett for a bad review. “Just another chav act!” he spat angrily, “No, Steve! It’s another fucking NED act!”

The Heavy

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BEATS

The winner of the ‘Big Banana Boots’ trophy was newcomer Sean Grant for some great ma-

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Last month, Doris Lessing became the oldest ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which bothered me slightly because I nearly killed her last year (accidentally) and who’d have gotten it then? But I’ll get to that later. Lessing may be the oldest winner thus far, but the laureates have tended to be quite aged for some time now. This is because the Nobel Prize nowadays awards an author’s entire writing career rather than any individual piece. It was not always thus. The Nobel Prize was set up by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, through his will. He left instructions as to how it was to be awarded in each category (chemistry, literature, medicine, peace and physics, with economics added later) with the literature prize to be awarded to “the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency”. The use of ‘work’ here can be interpreted as a single work, or as a body of work. The latter is now the accepted trend, but there was a time when a single work could clinch the prize. The Nobel Foundation describe Thomas Mann’s award as being “principally for his great novel Buddenbrooks”, though he could as deservedly have won for his entire output. It has now come to be accepted that an award of such importance (it’s a lot of money... and prestige) is best given for sustained excellence. Lessing’s award citation describes her as “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”. Make of that what you will. But the emphasis on the complete works of a writer has nonetheless left a list which is, especially in the last 50 years or so, made up largely of excellent writers who are worth checking out, Lessing included. It’s amazing that she finally got it, as Lessing herself has said that in the Sixties “they sent one of their minions especially to tell me they didn’t like me at the Nobel Prize and I would never get it”. The controversy surrounding the prize is more for who hasn’t won it than who has. Graham Greene is thought to have been repeatedly denied the prize, which he claimed was either for his Catholicism or his left-wing sympathies. The prizegiving committee has also been accused of being prudish for not (yet)

Highlights

DORIS LESSING CONSIDERS HER SCIENCE FICTION SERIES TO BE AMONGST HER MOST IMPORTANT WORK

Golden oldie rewarding Philip Roth or John Updike, and never rewarding Vladimir Nabokov. Lessing was thought to have been permanently removed from all shortlists when she began, in the late Seventies, to write a science fiction series: the sequence of five Canopus in Argus novels.

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punk or indie-dance fan could hope for. [Ally Brown]

continue writing quality fiction as she approaches the age of 90. Dynamite Doris! [Keir Hind]

Red Alert is 3 Nov at Ad Lib, Glasgow with J.Bostron, Alcane, JL Boco and Mossco (11pm-3am, £5). For a mid-week breaks sesh, head down to Red Star Institute at Red, Cowgate, Edinburgh on 8 Nov where Bradley C (Chew the Fat) is revving you up for the weekend (11pm-3am, £5). Red Star Institute returns on 15 Nov with local producer Aesthetics and 22 Nov for its 1st Birthday (11pm-3am, free). Noizteez is Friday 9 Nov at Berlin, Edinburgh with DJ Redrum plus guests (11pm-3am, £5). On the same night Az-Tech hits The Caves, Edinburgh with Manchester’s Baobinga & I.D while Clyde side, Pangea head back to the Barfly for more madness with residents Special Ed & Professor Fresh (11pm-3am, £6). Xplicit continue on their mission to present the biggest names in d&b with Andy C at the Bongo Club on 16 Nov (10pm-3am, £10). Also on 16 Nov, Technical Resistance and Damage present Unknown Error at The Caves (11pm-

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Bernard Sumner has never been the most mediafriendly of musicians, which means it’s easy to forget just how important he has been to the last 30 years of music. David Nolan’s new biography on the Joy Division guitarist who went on to lead New Order reminds you of his impact: from Love Will Tear Us Apart to Blue Monday and everything in-between and after, indie-rock would look very different without Sumner’s input. He has contributed to Confusion too: although it’s not an authorised biography, Sumner occasionally interjects to clarify or correct what former acquaintances have to say about him - “Sumner: That’s just not true. Never happened”. This makes for an interesting collage of different viewpoints leaving the reader to wonder where the truth really lies. It also provides as much of an insight into Sumner’s personality, through his sharp rebukes and explanations, as has ever been seen. With Nolan’s in-depth research and casual, almost conversational prose, and Confusion’s impressively up-to-date conclusion, it makes for as comprehensive and readable a biography of the man as any post-

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BONFIRE OF THE BRANDS BY NEIL BOORMAN

Have brands replaced personalities? Do we really pay more attention to the labels people wear than what they say or do? And is our choice of footwear really an accurate indicator of our lifestyle and aspirations? Neil Boorman thinks so. Bonfire of the Brands charts his journey from self-confessed brand junkie to ‘Nu Austere’ anti-brandbrand (think Naomi Klein, Muji and Adbusters). After a lifetime’s obsession with labels, Boorman diagnoses himself a “brand addict” and visits a therapist who can’t decide if his plan to burn his entire wardrobe is an act of catharsis or a cheap attention-seeking stunt. The reader is never quite sure either. This book is a slightly ill-fitting hybrid of addiction memoir, pop-sociology soapbox and incendiary blog. To his credit, Boorman is quick to acknowledge the irony of the publishing industry’s packaging of his project for mass

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ISMS AND OLOGIES BY ARTHUR GOLDWAG

Isms and Ologies is an unusual sor t of encyclopaedia in that it attempts to def ine all of – w e l l, 4 5 3 of - the doctrines that have shaped the world thus far. It’s hardly comprehensive, but it is written to be readable and entertaining. Perhaps it tries too hard to be entertaining, since one of the seven sections here is solely about Sexual Perversions - which are all, perversely enough, pretty dull. The most engrossing sections are those on Politics (lots of fighting) and Religion (huge lots of fighting). The most engrossing articles are those about obscure things, such as Muggletonianism, Mugwumpism

After an exciting October which saw storming gigs from EL-P, the return of NeverZone and exemplary Halloween shows from Mechanical Beast, TMHands and Sileni, things are pretty quiet. But have no fear, gay icon and all-round pin-up for prepubescent girls 50 Cent is playing Aberdeen Exhibition Centre on 7th November (6.30pm, £30+bf) and Glasgow SECC on 8th November (6.30pm, £30+bf), so, like, you can just stop reading now ‘cos this guy’s so hot to death he makes all these local cats sound... um, how you say, inauthentic. Harr harr. Meanwhile, the bound-to-be-huge veeeer y soon Underling keep going from strength to strength. Beginning the month with an appearance at the Spectrum Festival at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, they continue to gig relentlessly, whipping up salivating anticipation for their debut album, currently being mastered.

TOKYO YEAR ZERO

follows one Detective Minami as he tries to solve a double homicide in the aftermath of war, a task which at first seems insignificant but which grows, ominously, in importance as the plot unfolds. The book retains stylistic similarities to Peace’s previous works. Peace’s writing is more like poetry than the standard lingo of crime thrillers, with significant phrases picked up and repeated as motifs – such as quotes from the Emperor’s surrender speech. His writing style may in fact alienate the typical crime reader, if there is such a thing, and for anyone else the unfamiliar setting makes this probably his hardest book to get into. But it is worth making the effort, because this is an extremely accomplished novel which looks like being the start of a most impressive trilogy. [Keir Hind]

BY DAVID PEACE

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This book marks something of a return to crime writing for David Peace, af ter branching out to a multi-layered account of the miner’s strike in GB84, and also to the phenomenal football novel The Damned Utd, told in the first person voice of Brian Clough. Therefore Tokyo Year Zero, set in 1946 as the first of a proposed trilogy of Japan-set novels, is something of a departure. It

AFTER WEEKS WAITING WITH BATED BREATH FOR FEDDE TO TAKE SOME TIME OUT FROM HIS BUSY SCHEDULE, THE SKINNY FINALLY CATCH A FEW MOMENTS WITH THE DUTCH SUPERSTAR PRODUCER Andy C 3am, £5 b4 12 / £7). Saturday 24 Nov is Volume with LuckyMe (11pm-3am, £tbc) at Synthesis, Club Ego. Also at The Hive, Slashdot presents beats and bass with Boom Monk Ben, Luka and Kenny Breaks (11pm3am, free before 11.30pm / £5). 28 Nov is Mutiny at the Bongo Club with Machinochrist, Scamp, Mattycore and Tamobanter (time and price tbc). Friday 30 Nov rounds it all up with a final visit to Red Alert at Ad Lib (11pm-3am, £5). The worst thing has got to be deciding how you’re going to be in two places at once. Enjoy. [Jonny Ogg]

HIP HOP HIGHLIGHTS

Which should be enough to start with. I went to see Lessing speak at the Edinburgh Festival last year, and later that day was hurtling out at speed to get my train when I nearly ran over a large coat perched on the walkway beside the exit. This coat turned out to contain Doris Lessing. I’d only just missed colliding into her at a speed that wouldn’t have been good for either of us. Happily, she didn’t seem to have noticed, and still more happily, she lives on, to win the Nobel and to

or Antidisetablishmentarianism, which is here revealed not to be the longest word in English, and therefore pretty useless. All of this is somehow very trivial though, and as a reference work this book is bettered by most encyclopaedias. It’s written quite objectively, but Goldwag has a good eye for amusing details: such as noting that a classic of Social Realist art is called My First Tractor, or that Freud referred to himself as a ‘conquistador by temperament’. This does make the book worth dipping into, but as most of the information here is readily available either online or in standard reference works, this is hardly an essential read. [Ryan Agee]

by Alex Burden

This month is ridiculously full for the breakbeats and bass crew all over Scotland. Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee are full of attractive nights, and below are just a few from a fantastic selection.

AT PRESENT KEIR HAS NO WISH TO KILL ANY NOBEL LAUREATES. BUT HE’S OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS.

Lessing actually considers her science fiction series to be amongst her most important work - and it is good - but critics generally single out other novels as more important. If you want to read Lessing, The Golden Notebook is often recommended as the place to start. It’s a long novel about a female writer, and the structure is complex. A slightly easier start would be the author’s first novel, The Grass is Singing, about racial tensions in Rhodesia. But note that these plot summaries are ludicrously simplified. More recent works to consider are The Good Terrorist, which was written in the Eighties and now seems ever-more relevant, and the subtle science fiction novel Mara and Dann.

consumption. However, shopping for overpriced chutney at farmers’ markets and using toilet roll rougher than the Dead Sea Scrolls is hardly going to yank capitalism to its knees. Boorman’s commitment to his mission is admirable, yet his failure to offer readers any sensible plan-ofaction means that he can appear like yet another neurotic Londoner with too much time on his hands. [Debbie Martin]

From Holland to Detroit and back

DRUM & BASS CURRICULUM

REVIEWS BERNARD SUMNER:

Fedde Le Grand:

THERE’S A RIOT GOING ON BY PETER DOGGETT

T h e r e’s A Riot Going On traces the rapid decline of the 1960s’ counter-culture. Psychedelic musicians are exposed as ignorant or hypocritical, movements slip from

dynamic idealism to drug-addled cynicism while radical politicians are confused and exhausted. In breathless prose, Doggett details the drama of the aborted American revolution, expressing disappointment while retaining a tremulous hope in music’s potential. Although Doggett obviously admires the musicians of the late 1960s, he clear-sightedly deconstructs the mixture of psychobabble and empty rhetoric that characterised the period. John Lennon comes across as a distracted junkie who switches between support for terrorists to flaccid pacifism; Dylan abdicates responsibility for any political stance while artists from Mick Jagger to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young climb on the revolutionary bandwagon without actually offering anything. Without denying the power of the state - guns, spies and the courts were routinely used to undermine the counter-culture - Doggett reveals how easily capitalism could co-opt the wild energy of the times. So this book is a quietly depressing read. It shows how the energy of youth can be mistaken for commitment, and catalogues some of the stupidest statements ever made by public figures (on both sides of the conflict). Of course these days nobody would mistake a concert performed by millionaires for meaningful political protest, would they? [Gareth K Vile] OUT

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Dunfermline’s other favourite b-boy sons, Eaters, are also tucked away putting the final touches to their new album, Wives. In the meantime, they have released Leftovers,

a 34-strong collection of b-sides, unreleased and other general rarities... available for free from Fopp and Underground or from the band themselves. Another album soon to be dropping (hopefully) is the new Penpushers joint which they are currently tucked away working on, making magical and sublime cratedug shoegaze. And if you missed 1Xtra’s showcase of the best unsigned hip-hop in Scotland in October, it will be broadcast on 1xtra on 12th November from midnight till 2am as part of the Homegrown Weekend. Raise the goddamn roof! But some other great news, and a relief to anyone trawling through the internet for bits’n’bobs of random Scottish hip-hop activities, is that www.bringdarruckus. com may not be going under after all. Keep an eye on the site for news of any updates and further developments... and actual news. Peace oot me breddrin. [Parker Langley]

THE HOUSE OF TECHNO

For something a bit bassier, get down to Benga at The Art School for another Fortified session on 9 Nov (11pm3am, £5/£7/£8). If you caught him at Kinky Afro last year, you’ll know how punishing it’ll be. Meanwhile, How’s Your Party continue to make Friday mornings irrelevant by bringing Spektrum up to rock the dancefloor on 15 Nov (£6 adv). Bassy and nasty, this is worth getting to. If you’re broke and still gagging for great music, Seiji (Sonar Kollectiv / Bugz In The Attic) plays at the Ivy Weekender on 3 Nov (free entry). The Ivy’s providing more and more impressive music every weekend and it’s always free. For home listening, check out the new Subcity schedule which launched in October (subcity.org) for the best new and specialist music shows you can listen to again

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It’s rather fitting that we speak with Fedde in November 2007, as it is the first anniversary of the addictive Put Your Hands Up For Detroit reaching the number one slot in the UK. If you don’t know the track, there are no words to describe where you must have had your head shoved for the duration. Perhaps you’re more familiar with his output in 2005, when Fedde also managed to pull the unusual feat of having four tracks within the Dance Top 30, charting with Get This Feeling, Las Vegas, The Vibe, and Electronic EP at the same time. 1994 - the scene, a club in Utrecht (Fedde’s hometow n); the DJ, Dutch hou se legend Dimitri, and in the crowd is a young Fedde le Grand. The result? A blown away Fedde, eager to start creating and playing music as well as, if not better than, Dimitri. What was it about Dimitri that inspired you to pursue house music as a career? “The rhythm can take you into a cadence so that three hours seem like 15 minutes. The night after his performance, I was hooked.” Although Fedde is not from a musical background, he went on to teach himself music production and DJing, and after finishing high school earned himself choice performances at the prestigious Danssalon in Eindhoven. Nowadays, name a club in the Netherlands and chances are Fedde has played it, or possibly imagined and created the night in the first place. Sneakerz was created in 2004 and with Fedde as co-promoter - it successfully continues to this day in the form of Sneakerz @ The Beach in Scheveningen and Bloomingdale, Panama in Amsterdam, and T Paard van Troje in The Hague. Fedde does not have as many chances to play the Netherlands these days, but emphasises, “it is still important for me to do my thing in Holland.”

has come out of Rotterdam, such as Michael de Hey’s output - do you think this is an accurate representation of Dutch music? “I think that Holland is mostly known for trance music, but also for techno. I believe that there is coming a lot of good house music from Holland at this moment and I hope this will continue in the near future.” W hen he was clubbing as a non-DJ on the verge of artistic fruition, le Grand says he was partly inspired by the Detroit techno sound, perhaps why his biggest track to this day remains Put Your Hands Up For Detroit. There has been much debate about the origin of the track, including whether it was related to Matthew Dear’s 1999 release Hands Up for Detroit, a lesser known cut, of which only 1000 copies were printed and distributed. Is there any relation? “Yes, the vocal hook was totally inspired on [sic] Matthew Dear’s Hands Up for Detroit.” Apart from signing to MN2S’s agency (also home to Grant Nelson - see last month’s interview) exclusively for the UK, Fedde has so far spent this year touring the world’s hottest dance spots, from Indonesia to Ibiza. One of his latest ventures to Scotland was for his slot at the Stereofunk festival: “[Scots] really know how to do a proper party.” While in Miami he took home not one but three prestigious awards at the Winter Music Conference (Best Breakthrough Solo Artist, Best Breaks/Electro Sound, and Best Underground House Track), exceeding “all of [his] expectations.” The rest of his time is currently being absorbed by production for his new album, which is expected in 2008. Can we expect more filthy, addictive hooks coming our way? “I’m just trying to make music the best I can. It’s up to you to decide if there are filthy addictive hooks coming your way!” WWW.FEDDELEGRAND.COM

Holland is widely known for the techno which

As the old s ay ing go e s, A A A ACCCCIIIIIIEEEED Muthafuuucka! Or something to that effect. DJ Pierre celebrates acid in all its glorious forms by thrashing hell out of the Soundhaus system on 10 Nov. Often credited with inventing the squelchy genre through his use of the Roland Tb303, DJ Pierre certainly penned some of the first tracks, along with chaps like Phuture, Spanky, etc. Well worth checking out (11pm-4am, £9/£11). Clutter House, Studio 24’s new night, is all about old rave, i.e. being spangled and dressing in hideous neon, but that shouldn’t stop you getting down to see Guy Called Gerald and the rest of the merry 808 bunch. If you managed to miss all that, the next week sees Le Chic of International Deejay Gigolos fame playing out at Kontrol. Two launch nights with two utterly devastating guests (11pm-3am, £10/£8 both nights).

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“I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS COMING A LOT OF GOOD HOUSE MUSIC FROM HOLLAND AT THIS MOMENT AND I HOPE THIS WILL CONTINUE IN THE NEAR FUTURE” Boxcutter

Boxcutter and again. Alternately, pick up thy pod and walk, as Damien Lazarus provides a weekly fix of great music and rubbish chat on Lazpod (www.damienlazarus. com). In the capital, there is no excuse for missing Black Strobe on Wednesday 7 Nov at Cabaret Voltaire (11pm-3am). A full live set from the Godfathers of sleazy electro at only £4 or £3 members? Get down. Then on 16 Nov see Ivan Smagghe doing a similarly Parisian set for Access at The Cab, at £10/£8 a pop (11pm-3am). Ambassador, you are spoiling us. [Liam Arnold]

NOVEMBER 07

THE SKINNY

BEATS EDITORIAL

As we move closer to 2008, the number of vaguely religious festivals and events gather pace and spread themselves across the last three months of the year in a pseudoconcentration of religion. This month is Thanksgiving in America, borne from our Plymouth ancestors who decided to move in and set up camp on someone else’s land. They only survived thanks to the efforts of the English-speaking Squanto, a native who most likely took one look at the immigrants, sighed, shook his head, and set about training them in the basics of local food; a scene akin to naive children blundering to help their mum bake the bread. In turn they put on a party to thank Squanto and his people, and Thanksgiving was created. The holiday is now mostly known for TV specials and eating bulbous turkeys, but some elements of residual thanks prevail. Personally, I give thanks for the Beats writers, whose writing I am insanely jealous of on a regular basis. I read articles and I ponder, why didn’t I think of that, and why don’t I know that long word they’ve just used? I’m just thankful for the fact that human brains are absorbent and I’m hopefully learning as I go along... Thanks must also go to our wish being granted, and Cabaret Voltaire launching their new 120capacity floor at the end of Nov (on the eve of the Audio Bully’s show to be precise - see our preview). Monikered the Speakeasy and taking its lead from 1920s prohibition hang-outs, it features a gothic boudouir decor and bookable tables with a private bar. Keep an eye on our Dec issue for more details. And don’t forget our online content! /Alex

CONTENT ELECTRO ANNIVERSARY?

CLUBBING HIGHLIGHTS

FEDDE LE GRAND

ONUR OZER & THE HEAVY

LUCKYME

GLASGOW PREVIEWS

LABEL SPECIAL: ALEX TRONIC

ECLECTIC METHOD

EDINBURGH PREVIEWS

DOUBLE HELIX

ALBUMS & REVIEWS

DOUBLE HELIX

TOP 5 ALBUMS

1. BOXCUTTER - GLYPHIC (PLANET MU)

Resplendent with rich instrumental mastery and a nondiscriminatory experimentation ethic, Boxcutter paves the way for novice music-makers. OUT NOW

2. DISRUPT – FOUNDATION BIT (WERK) Foundation Bit is the plain where analogue and digital collide and Mario shares philosophy with Haille Sellasi. OUT NOW

3. UNDERWORLD - OBLIVION WITH BELLS (UNDERWORLDLIVE) This album hangs together through a more expansive and considered approach to their template, bringing their aesthetic to a more organic-sounding epoch. OUT NOW

4. THE HEAVY – GREAT VENGEANCE AND FURIOUS FIRE (COUNTER RECORDS) All brewed together to sound like the bastard offspring of Gnarls Barkley and Primal Scream, but with baws. Big baws. RELEASE DATE: 5 NOV

5. JAMES MURPHY & PAT MAHONEY – FABRICLIVE 36 (FABRICRECORDS) It does what all good mixes should do: lets you hear music you wouldn’t normally come in contact with and makes you want to go out and track down more of the same.

Electro anniversary? by James Blake with contribution from Niall O’Conghaile

ELECTRO HAS MANY BEGINNINGS. IT’S A BIT LIKE THE UNIVERSE; WHAT YOU’RE TOLD DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK, AND MOST TIMES SOMETHING IMPORTANT IS LEFT OUT. TO THAT END, THE SKINNY ASKS TREVOR JACKSON FROM PLAYGROUP ABOUT HIS NEW COMPILATION WITH ALTER EGO (KINGS OF ELECTRO), AND THE LEGENDARY GREG WILSON, ABOUT WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. Some names will leap to mind straight away the sequencer, and rightly so. – pioneers and mad scientists in the world of music like Afrika Bambaataa or Kraftwerk - but But they didn’t invent electro, then? when it comes to naming the originator, there are some differences of opinion. Well, no. It seems fairer to say that electronica came alive when it met the funk aesthetic and A case in point? Well, this year is the 25th attitude that Bambaataa actively participated Anniversary of Electro, according to some. A in, in New York, and became electro-funk. The Kings of Electro album is being released to terminology is often applied retrospectively. commemorate it, taking 1982 as the beginning. Playgroup’s Trevor Jackson, who mixed one Ga r y Nu ma n cer t a i n ly had succes s w ith disc from the two CD set, told us he “[doesn’t] the sy nthetic sou nd before Planet Rock, really know about the ‘25-years-old’ thing at in 1979, heavily inf luenced by everybody’s all.” The uncertainty about dates was reflected favourite German technologists. He was a in the responses of most people we spoke to, part of something electronic if not electro, as all with their own theory as to when and where were others, like Yello and Human League. it started. What they did is often called electro today, as is some disco, like I Feel Love by Donna So why 25? Well, when Prince was telling Summer. It becomes a matter of distinctions everyone to party like it was 1999 - October here, though. Some call it futurist, some say of 1982 - music was as futuristic as it had electronica. Some say synth-pop. At the time, ever been. In early April of that same year, nobody would have called it electro, though. Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force released As confusing as all this is, one thing remains P l a n e t R o c k. Fe w wo u l d q u e s t i o n t h e clear. Synths and sequencers changed music importance of that record, but it didn’t appear forever. That explosion is still audible today. in a vacuum. It was a marriage of funk and We’re barely beginning to exhaust the potential technology, much like the Detroit scene that of the new material created. was to give us techno, or the house scene in Chicago. The f lamboyance of legendar y So, what’s on Kings of Electro? Well, no acts Parliament and Funkadelic was clearly Afrika Bambaataa. The album was compiled a n i nspi ration to Ba mba ata a . Li ke those and mixed by Alter Ego and Playgroup, and it early experimenters in Michigan and Illinois, features both one historical mix and one more however, he was also heavily influenced by the contemporary one. likes of Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Unfortunately Like them he was unashamed of sounding s y nt he s i s e d , e mbr a ci n g t he t e ch nolog y available to give us his trademark sound. This open, broad-minded approach to injecting technology with the funk was controversial when it first happened – pioneering DJ Greg Wilson told us he can remember a time when Face magazine put electro on the front cover, almost two years after Wilson’s original residency at Legend hit capacity, playing electro funk to a predominantly black audience from all over Britain.

not everything on the shortlist was cleared by the original labels (Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre, for example), but there are some tracks you’ll know in amongst a few you might not. As Jackson puts it; “Electro to me is such a broad term. I find it hard to define; in fact I don’t really want to define it at all.” “It was a fine balance,” he continues. “I wanted to put some obscure things on there, but at the same time it was hard, because I didn’t want to put on too much stuff that the public wouldn’t know and might get turned off by.” Was there any unifying feature? “For me, there is a connection between the tunes, even though they sound quite diverse, and that’s because the people who were making them were ver y open-minded and basically into everything!” A nd as Greg Wilson puts it; “ The purists regarded electronic or electric (as they called it) with total contempt, rejecting its validity on the grounds that it was, in their opinion, not real music.” Radio stations were filled with rock and pop, and electro was in the position of being able to grow organically and out of the spotlight of mainstream media. It’s no surprise that it became such a diverse style, given that there was no canon. With no respect coming from the music establishment, people were free to make what they wanted. T he production resu lt s were to become something of a hidden legend, and for the UK it all began in a club appropriately called Legend, mixed by Greg Wilson. We’ve decided to let him have the last word. “Electro-Funk (or electro or whatever people choose to ca l l it) wa s the cat a lyst, the mut a nt stra i n that br idged the Br iti sh ja zz-f u n k u nd er g rou nd t o t he a cid - hou s e mainstream. Until this fact is fully recognized the UK dance jigsaw will remain incomplete and confused, with cou ntles s clubbers, t went y yea rs on, having no idea of the true roots of the music they’re dancing to.”

S o t h a t’s one of t he s pl it t i n g p oi nt s – Kraftwerk. W hile nobody can deny their influence, it’s hard to say they were making electro. They were heard by the r ight ears, though, and it was the owners of those organs who cemented the legend of Trans Europe Express. Much l i ke t h e P i x i e s i n the world of rock, K raft werk are a band of ten remembered less for t hei r ow n music than the effect they had on other p e o p l e’s a r t . T hei r ent hu si a s t ic use of technolog y helped many others get Alter Ego and Playgroup past the idea that computers were not ‘real’ instruments, and paved the way for techno and house. They are still named “ELECTRO TO ME IS SUCH A BROAD TERM. I FIND IT HARD TO DEFINE; IN FACT I today by almost any child of DON’T REALLY WANT TO DEFINE IT AT ALL.” - TREVOR JACKSON (PLAYGROUP)

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SINGLE REVIEWS LIARS

HOUSECLOUDS

by Richard Dennis

FREEDOM IS APPARENTLY WHERE IT’S AT NOWADAYS. WE’RE CONSTANTLY TOLD EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING IN A GAME, OR IT’S JUST NOT ‘NEXT GEN’. THE SKINNY IS NOT ENTIRELY CONVINCED: WE’VE COPED WITH LINEAR GAMES SO FAR, AND WE RECKON THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ROOM FOR THE BEST OF THEM...

Technolog y, capabilities and modes of expression in games are evolving faster than a baby in a reactor, way beyond the other entertainment mediums which advance at a snail’s pace in comparison. Each year brings promises of brand new ideas and concepts for games, ways of doing things never before thought possible as developers pioneer on into the dark frontier of cutting edge gaming. Developers such as Peter Molyneux are renowned for the exaggeration and hype they create around their games. If you believed one iota of the sheer amount of bovine faeces that spilled out of his mouth over Black & White and Fable then you were inevitably going to feel slightly let down by the end game. He’s not alone though: every slightly interesting game can be spun into sounding like the next big hairy mutt’s testicles. By far the biggest offender in this category is this vague concept of ‘freedom’ that everyone seems to be masturbating over, where the gamer creates the world around them, where they are free to do what they want when they want, to tackle things as they see fit and create their own unique adventure. The idea is that by giving the gamer ultimate choice in their actions and what they do and by placing them in this hyper-realistic world, it will make the game more immersive, believable and enjoyable.

This is not a problem in a more linear game where there is no apparent concept of freedom, you simply complete the tasks in the order they’re set out so that you can follow the story through to its conclusion. The story’s another thing that seriously suffers, mainly because it’s too bloody complicated to have the story and environment adapt to the exact order you do things, leading to the rather comical situation of having the main storyline where you urgently have to rescue the kingdom and save the world, but can spend countless weeks fulfilling menial tasks and becoming an expert alchemist before returning. In real life, which these games are trying their best to emulate, you’d expect to get a full bollocking and be told that they’ve sorted it all out while you were away pissing about. Instead everyone’s still standing where you left them, patiently waiting for you to return. It makes everything seem so hideously fake and lacking any of the sense of urgency or character that comes with a more linear game.

The times this increased freedom works is in games like Bioshock and Half-Life, where the story and game are reasonably linear but the variety of means and methods available for taking out enemies has greatly increased. Not only that, the worlds they create are so real and believable that you forget about whether the next event is scripted or not. It’s all done in what is ultimately a linear fashion, but so what? The joy comes when a game makes it feel like you are in control whilst at the same time effortlessly guiding you through a world and narrative that is all its own. Freedom and narrative will constantly be at loggerheads because of the nature of computer games, and while things stay as they are narrative will ultimately be the more satisfying form of gaming. One day AI will be sufficient to create a truly unique narrative for each and every situation the gamer gets into. Until then developers need to let the games do the talking, not their dreams, and apply the technology in a focused, believable and enjoyable way. Sans bullshit.

At the moment these attempts to create a sense of real life and freedom are nothing more than gimmicky and cosmetic and make it clear just how far from genuine choice and freedom they are. Oblivion and Crackdown are two prime examples of games that pretend to grant the gamer ultimate freedom. Left alone in the middle of this vast landscape to do exactly what you want to do when you want to do it. You can be whatever you want! As long as you choose a pre-determined path, do pre-determined quests to achieve whatever pre-determined thing it is you’re attempting, that is. It’s an illusion of freedom. An impressive illusion, but one in which you’re still jumping through the same ol’ hoops as ever, albeit in the order you choose. That’s all computer gaming is and it’s what undermines these games. For the gamer it’s all about finding the best strategy to win. The right choices, the right combination, the right rubber chicken, whatever it may be in order to beat the game and finish. So you can sleep in Oblivion. So what? It’s not actually sleeping, it’s just a handy way to wait around until the right time, meanwhile people still seem happy repeating the same routine time after time.

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There are some songs that would be punk-funk classics, but just don’t hit the right tempo, leaving audiences perplexed as to what to do with their feet and swaying limbs. And with Houseclouds, of f their fourth self titled album, Liars do just that marvellously. The groove would be there and the pitch bent vocals would be catchy but the whole thing proves magically elusive; in a soundbite-centric world, that is a good thing. Just as satisfying is the 7” b-side, Dear God, which sounds like the karaoke howl of Skaters crossed with The Doors being sucked through a chronosynclastic infundibulum. [Ali Maloney] OUT NOW WWW.LIARSLIARSLIARS.COM

CHRIS T-T

THIS GUN IS NOT A GUN EP (XTRA MILE)

Bet that last show will be a circle pit to die for though. [Ali Maloney]

commercial acclaim. [Billy Hamilton]

going around inhabiting characters, fine, but he lacks the lyrical deftness to translate it into the next timeless folk ballad. [Nick Mitchell]

RELEASE DATE: 19 NOV

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ABERDEEN ON 23 NOV. WWW.CHRISTT.COM

KT TUNSTALL

(SERIES 8)

Scotland has developed a knack of not paying due respect to its homegrown success stories. KT Tunstall is undoubtedly one of them, having gone from coffee shop busker to platinum-shifting star in a mere few years. But this latest single from her second album is disappointingly banal. It’s over-produced, musicallypredictable, and where’s that rasping bluesy voice that previously set her apart from the Radio 2 pack? Tunstall may now be a millionaire, but by so willingly compromising her individuality she’ll soon find herself back where she started: in the coffee shops, as background muzak this time round. [Nick Mitchell] WWW.KTTUNSTALL.COM

PASSENGER TABLE FOR ONE

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You don’t hear many ‘shoobydooby-doo-wahs’ these days. Hats off then to this particular busker, acoustic troubadour Rory McVicar, for pulling it off in a song that’s as far removed from Motown as his home town of Norwich. Now That You’re Mine is the first fruits from a talent good enough to have impressed John Peel at the tail-end of his life, and who are we to disagree? Full of lilting, pastoral melodies and harmonious vocals that hint at something darker beneath the songs’ boy-gets-girl exterior, it bodes well for his debut album, released later this month. More please, McVicar. [Darren Carle] RELEASE DATE: 5 NOV

It’s a singles column, not a dating agency. And it ain’t fussy, much...

CARIBOU

SHE’S THE ONE (100) Caribou’s Andorra is a capital Nshaped record, peaking with its first and last tracks and drifting down in-between. She’s The One uses stuttering backing vocals as a beat, suffused within uber-romantic dream-pop and falsetto harmonies. It’s really more than romantic – it’s about infatuation, having an obsessive interest in a person despite the advice you’re given (“you’ll never see just how per fect she could be”). Lightweight but faintly eerie, it’s most helpful to know that She’s The One is Andorra’s fourth track out of nine. [Ally Brown] RELEASE DATE: 26 NOV MYSPACE.COM/CARIBOUMANITOBA

FRIGHTENED RABBIT BE LESS RUDE

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In the spirit of The S k i n n y ’s c o m mitment to evenhanded criticism, Michael Bublé’s Lost (1star, 12 Nov) was given a fair listen, and af ter careful consideration, was found to be… absolute guff. David Gray may be about to impose Rilo Kiley his Greatest Hits on the world, but is token single You’re The World To Me (1star, 5 Nov) really necessary? A thousand times no. Another ageing crooner returns in the smoooooth form of Seal. Amazing (1star, 5 Nov) is an amazingly dull nu-soul ode to wife Heidi Klum, covered in a glut of trancey beats and acoustic guitar.

Bobby Kray’s Help Me (2stars, out now - 29 Oct) is self-avowedly “skinny white-boy” reggae, but it’s still to reggae what Vanilla Ice was to hip-hop. ExDelgado Emma Pollock’s Paper and Glue (3stars, 26 Nov) is an inoffensive, piano-led number about a broken relationship – but we expect more, Ms Pollock. Jarvis Cocker’s former right-hand man Richard Hawley continues his one-man reclamation of brylcreem balladeering with Serious (3stars, 5 Nov). Effortlessly executed, but so polished it almost slinks by unnoticed.

THE ALBUM RORY MCVICAR IS RELEASED ON 26 NOV. WWW.RORYMCVICAR.COM

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NO MATTER WHAT (FIERCE PANDA) If you believe what you read, indiepop is full of ‘gifted’ young songwriters at the moment. That’s usually a byword for Blunt-tastic levels of saccharine schlock, and Passenger, fronted by ‘gifted 23-year-old’, Mike Rosenberg, are no exception. ‘Table For One’ is an observational study of middle-aged, pub-stool-dwelling loneliness that aims for Simon & Garfunkel-style wistfulness but is in fact a hopelessly clichéd, uninsightful piddle of cringingly-MOR indie-lite. If young Rosenberg likes

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RELEASE DATE: 19 NOV

Lauded by many a music rag as the saviour of British song-writing, Chris T-T’s rise hasn’t exactly been meteoric. While rag-tag rapscallion Jamie T burst headlong into the mainstream, this Brightonbased troubadour was immersed in glowing tributes without any of the coin-spinning success and judging by new EP This Gun Is Not A Gun it’s hardly surprising. Squeezing himself into a fissure between Billy Bragg and Tom Robinson, his infectious politically-fused acoustica scythes through the bones of contemporary culture without thought to chart-stardom. Refreshing as it may be, you’re left with the impression Chris T-T is never destined for

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SOUNDS

GAMES Freedom? No thanks.

I know we live in that age of the reunion (anyone else half-expecting a Led Zeppelin / Spice Girls track?) and the phoney ‘last tour ever’, but it’s hard to predict who is calling it a day for good and who’s just having a creative tiff. But a drink should still be raised to Capdown, a stompingly fine ska-core loon crew who will play their LAST EVER show on the 9th of November. So that may make this their last release - a gentle reggae plod - something of an anti-climax.

The stand-out track from Frightened Rabbit’s promising debut album Sings The Greys, Be Less Rude is a perfect slice of unpretentious indiepop that packs just enough verve and attitude to elevate it from the daily guitar-based grind. Riding on a plaintive harmonica, singer Scott makes a plea for politeness - “you sit on your high-horse and you’re spouting high-horse shite” - as drums crash right on cue. It’s anthemic and bouncy, without getting too big for its modest subject matter d. It’s that harmonica that weighs it down, imbuing a humble charm amidst building anger. (Ally Brown) RELEASE DATE: 5 NOV

Moving from the introspective realm of the solo artist to the teeming territory of the band, we bump straight into those spiky-haired poseurs from Linkin Park. Once able to inflict a fair dosage of angst, latest single Shadow of the Day (2stars, 29 Oct) seals their fate as faceless stadium dwellers. Elliot Minor seem to want to be the new Muse. The White One is Evil (2stars, 5 Nov) is packed with ridiculously-OTT flourishes at the expense of any tune. A lot better is The National’s Apartment Story (3stars, 5 Nov). Warm, layered and smouldering, it still lacks the drama of last single Mistaken For Strangers. They may be straight outta Leeds, but The Sugars’ Way To My Heart (4stars, 19 Nov) is a million miles from so-called ‘New-Yorkshire’: bluesy disco, girl-boy vocals and stacks of attitude. Young Knives offer more evidence of their madcap brilliance with Terra Firma (4stars, 5 Nov). God knows what a chorus of “Fake rabbit, real snake, terra firma, terra firma” actually means, but who cares when it’s this infectious? Close call, but Rilo Kiley’s Breakin’ Up (4stars, 26 Nov) wins single of the month: irresistible, funkadelic pop from an unlikely source. With pseudo-Supremes backing, Jenny Lewis’s voice has never sounded sweeter. [Nick Mitchell]

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THE JOY COMES WHEN A GAME MAKES IT FEEL LIKE YOU ARE IN CONTROL WHILST AT THE SAME TIME EFFORTLESSLY GUIDING YOU THROUGH A WORLD AND NARRATIVE THAT IS ALL ITS OWN HalfLife 2

REVIEWS SEGA RALLY

touch of nostalgia. (Dave Cook) SEGA RALLY XBOX 360/PSP/PS3/PC

The ultimate arcade racer returns in fine fo r m i n th i s high-octane title. Unrealistic power slides, eye-blindingly colour ful locales and odd-sounding co-pilots are what make this game fun. It looks realistic but it’s the step back from the less serious racers out there that makes this shine. Track deformation brings a tactical edge to the rally genre as mud and gravel are torn up under the wheels of each car making the roads uneven and tricky to navigate. This gives the game an extra level of depth as players have to be quick in adapting their racing lines to suit freshly-damaged surfaces. 20 tracks of lush visuals and satisfying speed await you both on- and off-line. This defines racing game standards in the same way Ridge Racer did so many years ago. If you liked that then you will know what to expect here. Get this if you like your racing games with a

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PROGECT GOTHAM RACING 4 (MICROSOFT)

In its four th iteration, you should r ightfully expect any game franchise to have ironed out any problems. Thankfully, PGR4 does not disappoint; massively improved handling coupled with a tweaked Kudos system make for a much more satisfying driving experience. Indeed, with the (slightly) improved graphics and all new weather effects (which actually affect car handling) on much improved tracks, PGR4 is a pleasurable and varied experience. Throw in the extra challenge of the newly, if slightly sketchy, implemented bikes and racing becomes a whole new - wobbly- bag.

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Arcade and Career modes both offer extensive challenges in single player, while Xbox Live has you race on randomised track conditions to keep everyone on their toes. Should you for some reason tire of the driving, the addition of Geometry Wars Waves (the addictive lil’ brother of an excellent Live Arcade game) to your career garage is just the cherry on the cake. (Josh Wilson) OUT NOW ON X360, RRP £39.99 HTTP://PGRNATIONS.COM/

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stunning and every piece of scenery is destructible. In fact the game awards you with cash for your carnage a la Burnout. You’ll hardly ever run out of ammo and the death toll is bloody high. So far, so mindless, and this is what makes the game great. It’s a no-brainer and perfect for a bit of gung-ho tomfoolery in short bursts. This is an action gamer’s blood-drenched dream, though a short single player mode could leave a bitter aftertaste, so buying preowned is definitely recommended. Riotous Xbox Live play serves to extend the orgy - Kaboom!! (Dave Cook) OUT NOW ON X360/PS3

C re ate d w i th the input of legendary act i o n d i r e c to r John Woo, Stranglehold follows a cop’s quest for re venge against cop-killing gangsters. Obviously, being directed by Woo, it’s somewhat of a slo-mo gunplay orgy but, as Max Payne showed us, this is no bad thing. Visually, every locale from Chinese markets to museums looks

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SONIC RUSH ADVENTURE (SEGA)

Sonic is no good in 3D. It’s a sad fact that many fans of the spiky one h a v e h a d to come to terms with over the last few years. Now, Sega have removed that pesky extra dimension and Sonic

is back doing what he does best in this great sequel. Stranded at sea Sonic runs at breakneck speed over several themed islands in search of materials to make a boat home, corkscrewing, loop de looping and grinding rails along the way. The speed is impressive, the music, graphics and story are ace and even the 3D boating sections are a nifty little feature. Back on form and sans extremely annoying sidekicks (although one new, not so bad character joins the cast) Sonic proves his worth once again in this fun and engaging title that, while not offering much in the way of innovation, serves up enough old-skool platforming to delight newcomers and veterans alike. (Dave Cook) OUT NOW ON DS

premise is simple: slide a spaceship along 100 differently shaped frames and blast wave after wave of advancing X-shaped enemies. Frames are basic at first but later levels include disorienting corkscrews and zig zags. Throw in psychedelic backdrops and trippy techno music and the whole experience becomes euphoric as explosions blossom into flowers and strange shapes bounce around the screen. For 400 points the game is a steal. As addictive as Geometry Wars but twice as daft so don’t let the look of the game fool you, though: it’s hard to figure out what you have to do at first but with a little patience players will see why this game is up there with Tetris in the addictiveness stakes. (Dave Cook)

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SPACE GIRAFFE In 1994 Llamasoft founder and gaming legend Jeff Minter created space shoot-em-up Tempest 2000 and life was good. In August he created Space Giraffe and life stayed good. The dif ference between the two games? Not very much actually. The

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ALBUM REVIEWS THE BLACK & WHITE ALBUM (IPECAC)

I p e c a c t h r i ve on releasing albums that subvert expectations, even within single songs, and this collection of traumatic pop songs is an outstanding addition to the label’s catalogue. With a tender voice that somehow soothes while spitting out acerbic lyrics of misanthropy, racism and a fetish too far, Peeping Tom member Imani Coppola shows that she is no mere singer/songwriter and more a wonderment of musical adventures. And she’s in no way hindered by her knack for writing awesome lyrics – “sometimes it feels like everyone’s being a dick / but they’re not it’s just you being a dick to everyone” or the outstanding punk snarl of Woke Up White Today. If Coppola wanted to make straight pop music she’d surely be soullessly huge, but instead we all benefit from her irreverent genre games. The flirtations with crunk R’n’B can be almost cringe worthy in their parodying, but in the right light they feel all the more worthwhile. (Ali Maloney) RELEASE DATE: 5 NOV WWW.IMANICOPPOLA.NET

UNTITLED MUSICAL PROJECT UNTITLED MUSICAL PROJECT (TIGERTRAP)

T hey win the p r i ze fo r t h e most unimaginative band n a m e e v e r, but Untitled Musical Project are not a group who have much time for imagination anyway. They barely have time for their own songs, thrashing out eight of them in this debut 18-minute mini-album. The Brummie band make unreconstructed, dishevelled yet urgent punk. Refreshingly, this is utterly pretension free; no fake accents or fake angst here, just unabashed noisemaking. Comparisons with Idlewild’s early Captain EP or Nirvana’s Bleach album arise in songs like The A Minor Pentatonic Scale or the cheekily titled I May Not Be Jimi Hendrix But At Least I’m Not Dead. Untitled Musical Project may not be guitar legends - or dead - but they demand to be heard. [Nick Mitchell] RELEASE DATE: NOV 5 MYSPACE.COM/UNTITLEDMUSICALPROJECT

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W h e n te c h n ical genius is your major selling point there is always that precarious tightrope to be scaled, separating the lofty heights of the virtuoso from the fatal depths of self-indulgence. This is the rub for Six Organs of Admittance, the alter ego of Comets On Fire guitarist Ben Chasny. The coruscating passages he brews with a plectrum are often intoxicatingly brilliant, his songwriting abilities rarely so. These tracks are slow burning, horizonseeking journeys in themselves, whether Chasny is plugged in or

not. Alone With The Alone brings to mind the freeform improv of Mars Volta minus the Latin percussion and thrashing lunacy, while Strangled Road is a mellow acoustic number that profits from Elisa Ambrogio’s honey-soaked vocals. It’s almost like amazingly proficient background music, such is Chasny’s taste for repetitive, meandering song structures. Too often, though, it stumbles toward ‘70s-prog-style, tripping-inthe-desert wankery. [Nick Mitchell] RELEASE DATE: 12 NOV WWW.SIXORGANS.COM

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ALL HOUR CYMBALS (MONITOR)

World music. Two words destined to strike fear through the heart of asymmetrical-fringed indie-kids everywhere. And yes, All Hour Cymbals contains plenty of influences from the four corners of the globe that even extend to a liberal smattering of Gregorian chanting. But the Beta Band were partial to their fair share of that, and weren’t loved any less for the fact. Whether you take to New York’s Yeasayer or not, one thing’s for certain: there will not be another record like it in 2007. Each one of these tunes creates a solid groove that never fails to draw you in; casein-point being album opener Sunrise, a song that could have fit easily onto Primal Scream’s Screamadelica. Elsewhere, bongos, sitars and accordions rub shoulders with jangly guitars to create an unlikely but intoxicating mix. The track mostly likely to sway the doubters, however, is 2080, an exhilarating number which sounds something akin to the Arcade Fire led by Peter Gabriel with CSNY on backing vocals - all recorded in space. Don’t be scared, kids, take a chance on All Hour Cymbals before the hipsters claim it for themselves. [Barry Jackson]

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Many bands might take the description “ungodly sludgy ugly mess” as s o m e s o r t of negative reaction, but I doubt Clockcleaner would, and rightfully so. This trio combine the ramshackle chaos sleaze of The Birthday Party with the sneering surreal scumfuck boogie of NoMeansNo but somehow manage to make those ingredients sound much, much heavier...and nastier. In a world where shock tactics are par for the course, it’s nice to hear music made by people who are genuinely unstable; Babylon Rules is a strong contender for The Skinny’s prestigious annual award for most choruses on one album based around “cumming inside.” Clockcleaner’s depravity, filth and all round existentialism are accentuated by primal pulsing bass and semen encrusted guitar, making lullabies for an AIDSinfected world. If this all doesn’t sound like a high recommendation, then listening probably won’t change that, but for those who like their rock demented, Clockcleaner are a trip and a half. (Ali Maloney) RELEASE DATE: 5 NOV WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CLOCKCLEANER

FRISKA VILJOR BRAVO! (CRYING BOB)

Need a little s o m e t h i n g to raise your spirits as the dark winter nights draw in? This debut from Swedish duo Friska Viljor may well do the trick. After all, the Stockholm-based friends claim to have written all the songs after parties and nights out – whilst drunk, in other words. This manifests itself in a style of guitar

pop that hits the balance squarely between innocent optimism and s e nti m e nta l m e l a n c h o l y. L i ke many of their Scandinavian peers, Friska Viljor put their own spin on melodic pop, through Joakim Sveningsson’s infantile vocals and a lavish backdrop of mandolin, accordion and trumpet fanfares. While it’s fundamentally pop, they aren’t afraid to experiment: I Gave My Life has a gypsy klezmer sounding hook that Zach Condon would admire, while Monday is an electro-based ditty that evokes the spirit of The Knife. Bravo! isn’t the most forward-thinking record of the year so far, but it’s impossible not to warm to. [Nick Mitchell] RELEASE DATE: 12 NOV WWW.FRISKAVILJOR.NET

REPUBLIC OF LOOSE AAAGH! (LOADED DICE)

20 07’s be e n funk-ing crazy, ain’t it? From t h e f r e a ko i d majesty of Chromeo’s Fancy Footwork to Prince’s 21-night soldout residency in the venue formerly known as the Millennium Dome, it seems every man and his velouradorning mongrel has a hankering for booty grinding, slap bass tickling grooves. But, inevitably, the new funk revival is going to generate some unwanted dangleberries and, in Republic Of Loose’s porcelain blocking sound, it’s undoubtedly dropped a stinking log. This nine-strong Celtic ensemble’s second LP Aaagh! is an indigestible splatter of chart-slobbering sheen riddled with pantomimic misogyny and a Neanderthal sense of violence. Perpetually bulging to grinding R&B rhythms, Timbaland-aping tracks like the The Translation or the insipid flamenco shuf fle of Break! could transcend Jamiroquai into the pantheon of disco legends. Thematically dubious and musically incorrigible, Aaagh! proves that when it comes to creating hook

laden floor fillers, Republic Of Loose can funk right off. [Billy Hamilton]

come ‘folktronica’? Maybe. Maybe that’s what Reverbaphon see themselves as; maybe that sums them up neatly and completely. But I doubt it. Sure the melodies and atmosphere do have a neo-Celtic feel to them, and they are combined with glitchy squeals, electronic scrapes and digital swirls, but the whole concoction is far more than that, and more complex. Often it is difficult to distinguish which is which, as often the FX plays the role of the traditional while the acoustic instrumentation takes on the deceptive disguise of being an innovative laptop contrivance. Hell, why don’t we get really postmodern and take this album as a philosophical question then: what is the modern and what is traditional? [Ali Maloney]

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SOLE AND THE SKYRIDER BAND

SOLE ANDTHE SKYRIDER BAND (ANTICON.)

Tim Holland’s a sensitive s o l e: s e e m ingly consumed by the imperialistic misdeeds of the western world after living in war-torn parts of Eastern Europe for a few years, his stream of consciousness poetry is ruled by an empire guilt he just can’t seem to shake. From the grandiose opening of A Sad Day for Investors, he articulates himself like a rambling street Chomsky, calling out the thinly veiled disguise of capitalism as urban renewal while he pleads for a better deal: “Tell us our new cities will be far cleaner than the old ones.” The stellar instrumental efforts of Floridian trio Skyrider stretch from gut rumbling dub to sheer walls of white noise, while sole’s wired awake idioms continue to belie his apathetic flow. The conclusion of Stupid Things Implode on Themselves is as explosive a testament to the strength of this combination as any and, although this LP’s a slow burner, trust the rewards to start unfurling by the third listen. [Dave Kerr]

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DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN IRE WORKS (RELAPSE)

Opening with a barrage that sounds exactly like Irony is a Dead Scene – the between vocalists EP Dillinger Escape Plan recorded with stand-in Mike Patton - Ire Works may very well be the album that a lot of fans might have expected from the band had Patton remained a permanent member. Quantum leaping between sonic landscapes and time signatures, DEP’s third full length LP will leave any challengers to their throne of so-called mathcore floundering in the dust. Utilising even more of the possibilities afforded by the electronics introduced on pervious works, there are moments of Sick on Sunday that provide the definitive blueprint for crossing black metal with drill’n’bass. Elsewhere DEP flirt with soul vocals and jazz piano while heavy-petting with Mr Bungle style ADD-fueled composition. Music this heavy tends to get somewhat dismissed, but if that weren’t the case, Dillinger Escape Plan would show up Radiohead’s child’s play for what it really is. [Ali Maloney]

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HERE COMES EVERYONE (BENBECULA)

Ah postmodernism, eh? So as soon as we music journalists make up a silly blanket-term / pigeon-hole genre, we need to start quantifying it and categorising according to instrumentation. So does any band that fuses electronica with acoustic instruments in a chilled out, pleasing way automatically be-

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Marseille Figs m a ke m u s i c like the 20th century didn’t happen. This is Wild West saloon, honky-tonk, Cajun, spit ‘n’ sawdust, frontier-town, barnstorming rabble-rousing – more authentic than Rednex’s Cotton Eyed Joe maybe, but not by much. The trio, led by Californian, London-based J Maizlish, cause all kinds of discordant noises with ukuleles, mouth harps, screaming sax and Maizlish’s own gee-shucks, yodel-shaped singing. And they just about get away with it on songs that take a lead from less dusty sources, such as the Nick Cave badass growl of Caeser’s Revenge or the Stooges-like organ riff of Skin & Bones. To their credit, they possess talent, style, stories and humour in abundance. It’s just hard to imagine the scenario of listening to the album casually, because when ye olde sound doesn’t work, it really doesn’t. If only they’d been born in the 1860s. [Nick Mitchell]

At every stage since the phenomenal success of OK Computer, Radiohead h ave s tr u g g l e d to b e themselves in the face of crushing pressure from their army of obsessive fans. Af ter being both praised and pilloried for the leftward steps of Kid A and Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief represented that split between fans in its compilation of traditional indie-rock songs alongside more experimental efforts. Thom Yorke’s solo album got the scatter-bleeping tendencies out of his system, before Radiohead’s seventh album dropped out of the blue to demonstrate exactly how they were supposed to sound all this time. With sumptuous, enveloping production, fluid guitars soaked in reverb, and Yorke’s voice at its most soulful, In Rainbows is Radiohead’s leanest, warmest and most accessible record in a decade. It exudes the confidence of a band liberated from the pressures of label deadlines and expectant fans, a band that finally seems – dare I say it? – happy in its own skin. This is a new Radiohead, one that subtly melds synths, loops, trips and beats into mid-tempo indie-rock, instead of clustering disparate styles into different songs and worrying about which to choose. Now you have the choice, but whatever you decide to pay for In Rainbows, it’s worth every penny. (Ally Brown)

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EDITORIAL

This issue marks my first month as ar ts ed itor, a nd it certai n ly seems to be an interesting time of yea r to be t a king over. As we head towards w inter the major galleries are winding down their big-buck-blockbuster summer exhibitions, leav i ng u s f ree t o focus on some more artist-led ventures. It’s a time to see shows that are younger and fresher, by artists who are as yet unconstrained by international accolades or inclusion in the art historical canon. It can be a bit of a risky business attending the shows of artists whose pedigrees are unknown, whose form is as yet uncertain. However, there is always the chance that contained within the works will be something inspiring, exciting, indefinably moving. Hopefully each of these shows will contain something of that. In Edinburgh this month I am most looking forward to Survey, which celebrates 20 years of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop with a members’ show in the stately surrounds of the RSA. ESW members tend to produce good, honest sculpture which balances both a drive for concept with a high standard of making, and it will be interesting to see relatively young career artists exhibiting on the Mound. In Glasgow, the Modern Institute brings us a chance to see Thomas Houseago’s work in the flesh. Melding the classical with the cubist with a contemporary integrity of material, Houseago’s sculpture looks fascinating in two dimensions, and should, I hope, be better in three. Elsewhere, Lowsalt’s Out of the Wrong Comes the Sweetness is guaranteed to be intriguing, while SWG3’s constantly evolving roster of exhibitions should keep everyone on their toes. All in all, quite a busy month. /Rosamund West

TOP 5 EVENTS

1. STEPHEN MURRAY & ALEX GROSS OUT OF THE WRONG COMES THE SWEETNESS LOWSALT, GLASGOW, 3 - 18 NOV SCULPTURE AND DRAWING DEALING WITH MYTH, FOLLIES AND DRUNKEN BOASTS. [SEE PREVIEW]

2. EDINBURGH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY, EDINBURGH, 10 NOV - 18 DEC

A group show celebrating 20 years of ESW featuring new work by workshop inhabitants. It should bring a taste of contemporary sculpture to Princes Street.

3. KATIE ORTON GENERATOR PROJECTS, DUNDEE 10 NOV - 9 DEC

The Edinburgh based sculptor and Embassy commitee member ventures northwards with a solo show of newly-commissioned work.

4. NEW WORK SCOTLAND PROGRAMME COLLECTIVE GALLERY, EDINBURGH

Events throughout the month An ongoing series of specially commissioned exhibitions and performances from recent graduates, accompanied by talks and events. All this and the opportunity to spend your lunch break learning about art. [See Brown Bag Lunches listings]

5. THOMAS HOUSEAGO MODERN INSTITUTE, GLASGOW, 24 NOV - 5 JAN

The LA based sculptor brings his deceptively classical plaster work to Glasgow.

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Where do we go from here? by Jenny Richards

A MAJOR INITIATIVE THAT AFFIRMS THE WEALTH OF TALENT SCOTLAND IS YIELDING When finding your feet post-degree show, away from student electro nights and the daily rush home for lunchtime Neighbours, the number one most loathed question must undoubtedly be: ‘So what exactly are you going to do now?’ However, these words, loaded with far too much expectation, may not need to be so disheartening. The New Work Scotland Programme (NWSP) run by The Collective Gallery is a major initiative that invests time into sculpting a terrain that can help support Scotland’s emerging artists. The idea centres itself around an open submission application for recent graduates, and successful applicants are given the opportunity to showcase new work in their first solo show. This year N WSP has broadened its scope, concentrating on a series of promising events and talks. Each is dedicated to offering guidance and information to the many ambitious and industrious artists who reside North of the border. The highlight within this ‘tag-team’ of events is a panel discussion with critic and writer Moira Jeffrey. This occasion acts as a follow up to her role in the New Work Writing project, (the younger sibling of NWS for incipient arts writers). The initiative is to encourage dialogue around the visual arts. As usual the gallery has an open doors policy and readily welcomes any enthusiasts, often free of charge.

ing and closing to the rigorous calendar. Looking more closely at the current exhibition of Glasgow graduate Holly McCulloch, it is pleasing to see the ambition that has been applied to the space. The world McCulloch has created on Cockburn Street isn’t a finished project; it is an extending deluge of information. The diligent display is sure to leave even the mathematicians amongst us baffled. The solar system she is exploring is governed by colour. Black is the authority. The first gallery is dressed as a waiting room; neurotically controlled colour chart drawings punctuate the walls. They are the bureaucratic documents of this totalitarian institution.

light suggests a further intense investigation. The familiar drone of a ‘science-high-schoolteacher’ specifies the vital equations obligatory to understand the relationship from one shape and colour to the next. This is an exclusive institution. It is like looking into a telescope whose lens cap has not been removed. Nothing makes sense. Even if you persist to industriously converge symbols and colours you will be confronted by the same answer: it is meaningless. Enduring the repetition of the data projector, the undecipherable planetarium feels less oppressive. The incomprehension is comfortable. McCulloch expects nothing from the viewer. No questions to answer, no objectives to justify. All I expect? That she will be wearing black to the next Collective gathering.

The video piece ‘Display Presentation’ attempts to explain the hierarchical system of the 6-colour universe the audience has stepped into. Beefeater-esque characters comically march onto camera earnestly performing the choreographed ritual McCulloch has appended to each colour. As the performance progresses it is clear/unclear that there is no explanation, no reason, no logic. Everything is cryptic, arbitrary and rule abiding.

COLLECTIVE GALLERY, COCKBURN ST, EDINBURGH

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Another get-together to note is Collective’s ‘Hey Student’ evening, which combines an informal talk with drinks and live music. It exemplifies the gallery’s eager application to touch on a wider audience. Any opportunity to glimpse new faces in Edinburgh’s network of art institutions is a welcome endeavour. (I trust you are all too familiar with the ‘village capital’s’ traits?) The choice this year to include five artists affirms the wealth of talent that Scotland is yielding. Three of the selected artists’ - Herbert, Lynch and Wakes - practice is predominately performance-based and each has been given a week where they have a free reign to experiment and develop their initial concepts. If you are of thoroughbred blood I’m sure you will already have received an exclusive VIP invite to Oliver Herbert’s elitist gala prize-giving. In contrast, Tessa Lynch embraces a wider audience as the key component to her interactive installations while Holly McCulloch and Jason Nelsons’ static shows offer a motivating open-

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Out of the wrong comes the sweetness @ Lowsalt Opening on 5 November, Stephen Murray and Alex Gross’s dual show at Lowsalt should be a suitably dark and intriguing experience within one of Glasgow’s newer artist-run exhibition spaces. Located on Renfrew Street, Lowsalt represents an alternative to the pristine, sometimes sterile environments of more established, commercial spaces. The aesthetic here is more on the side of rough and ready, a place where people make art for the sake of making and sharing art, where the programme is led by what is interesting, different, challenging rather than by what is commercially viable or indeed in keeping with some spurious notion of the contemporary Scottish époque. For this show Ganghut’s Stephen Murray promises to continue on his mythopoeic adventure, creating drawing and a large tripod sculpture based on research he has been doing into 18th century

follies and “the tall tales and drunken boasts that spring up around the creation of them”. He will also be dealing with the ‘Jack’ figure of myth and folklore, and presumably playing with the Scottish vernacular to create his own particular brand of allusive artwork. Alex Gross follows on from his Cabbage Heid show in the Glasgow Sculpture Studios with works which will be looser in style, with more drawings which will apparently include more mushrooms. Details may be vague at this point but, judging by the artists’ past work and the nature of the exhibition space, the show should prove to be unique, inspiring and well worth a peek. LOWSALT, 265 RENFREW ST, GLASGOW 3 - 18 NOV THURS TO SUN, 12 - 5PM FREE ENTRY WWW.LOWSALT.ORG.UK

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As 2007 draws to a close we can rest soundly in the knowledge that Scottish music is in safe hands. You might have noticed that Sounds has been busy gathering such opinions from va r ious lu m i na r ies of the loca l scene a lmost monthly. On the eve of the release of FOUND’s sophomore album This Mess We Keep Reshaping, Tommy Perman is in no mood to rock the boat. “I doubt there’s been a healthier time for the Scottish music scene,” he suggests.

REVIEWS

by Darren Carle

FOUND, if you’re not already aware after reading The Skinny’s analysis of their debut LP within these pages last year, are among the most experimental, exhilarating and without doubt enjoyable of the current crop of bands to arrive on the circuit in recent times. W hen pu shed to su m ma r i se thei r sou nd i n a si n g le s ent ence, Per m a n h it s t he na i l on the head: “Unpred ict able, noi sy,

m e l o d i c , d a f t , e l e c t r o n i c - a r t - p o p .” Reasons To Be Cheer ful: Par t 2: FOU ND are signed to Fife’s Fence Records, one of Scottish music’s leading independent lights. Li fe for the ba nd, it wou ld seem, y ield s promise. “ We’re delighted to be w ith the Fencers. It feels more like a family than a record label (albeit a hairy, possibly inbred family). Our approach to making music and artwork fits in nicely with their heritage.” Referencing both the Beta Band and King Creosote, it’s not d i f f icu lt to see where FOUND fit in with the East Neuk collective either. Cer tain domestic i n f luences a re i n herent but by no means overriding. This Mess We Keep Reshaping casts the net far and wide. “It’s really difficult to pin down,” Tommy advises. “Let’s just say we were listeni ng to a hel l of a lot of music when we were making the record. A fe w f a vo u r i t e s we r e Moondog, Jay Dee, Grizzly B e a r a nd Ivor C u t le r.” T he d i ver s it y c apt u re d on record i s someth i ng that is ostensibly present i n mos t ot her a rea s of F O U N D ’s o p e r a t i o n s ; Per m a n even de s cr ibe s the group as “a band and ar ts collective.” They’ve

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played galleries, museums, sculp t u re workshops a nd storage cont a i ners. Their recent collaboration with Kimho Ip, a Chinese composer and musician, has resulted in their eclecticism being pushed even further. “Kimho plays a Chinese dulcimer, the Yangchin which we sampled on the opening track on this album, Plotkiller. We provided a weird electronic DJ accompaniment for a performance that he was giving which involved dancers, a Chinese tea house and a range of traditional music. One sample came from a 1930s Shanghai jazz standard which Kimho had given us to work into the performance.” Possibly the only Scottish band to be au fait enough with pre-War Chinese jazz music to know to nonchalantly reference the ‘standards’, FOUND could easily be caught up in their ow n trip, yet rarely come across as self indulgent. Perman explains. “W hat we do is fairly experimental but also accessible. I believe it could be enjoyed by a large number of people. We don’t want to compromise our sound by trying to make it more commercial but at the same time we’re not interested in making music which alienates people. We’re trying to find a happy medium between saleability and experimentation.” On the sound evidence of their first two albums, the balance, it would appear, has been struck. FOUND LAUNCH THEIR NEW LP AT FENCE CLUB #3 AT THE CAVES, EDINBURGH ON 1 NOV. THIS MESS WE KEEP RESHAPING IS OUT ON 1 NOV VIA FENCE. REVIEW IN NEXT ISSUE. WWW.MYSPACE.COM/FOUNDTHEBAND

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T his inte r natio na l group s how brings together ar tists mak ing imagery about underground culture, psychedelia and sensuality. Dr Lakra, an artist and tattooist, has painted a huge mural of erotic, melting figures taken from imagery in 1950s Mexican magazines. There is a sense of visual overloading in these works which is shared by E*Rock’s silkscreen posters. The inclusion of Lolly Batty’s plastic g e o m e t r i c s c u l pt u r e s d o e s n’t seem to relate to the rest of the show, so much so that her work, which interestingly “explores the mathematical roots of form”, starts feeling slightly unnecessary amongst all the other media. Baldvin Ringsted’s interactive work tries too hard to engage with the viewer. First, the sound changing as we approach paintings of madonnas concealed behind suspended glass panels. Then, we are encouraged to trace ‘invisible forcefields’ as we move closer to the paintings and explore the space. This is inventive, and relates to a general sense of fluidity and playfulness. Ultimately, however, it seems too complicated. “All the works reflect a utopian spirit, a belief in the power of line and form to influence the viewer,” reads the interpretation. This shared spirit could be fostered better in terms of the display, which feels fragmented and slightly loses its sense of spirit as a result. [Lucy Gallwey]

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Upon entering the gallery the viewer is met with a corridor of photographic works that seem to document moments from casual, intimate but deliberately structured musical performances. An old man in his living room wearing headphones looks into the camera; another old man floats on his back in an otherwise empty public swimming pool. These two men are the main protagonists of and lend their first names to the video works - Starform Alex and Starform Thomas - that form the body of the show. Each features a performance of sorts: Alex sings a hymn in his living room; Thomas whistles breathily to an accompanying flautist whilst gently propelling himself about a swimming pool. We are carefully introduced to the ambient sounds and sights of the two environmentsAlex watches television and checks the racing form in his paper; we hear the lapping and splashes of Thomas’ pool as the flute warms up. The juxtaposition between live music and unconventional setting is jarring, the specificities of the flawed performances drawn out by the incongruity of their aural siting. Starform is the recent betting form of a racing horse, studied to consider favourites. The play between the astral and quotidian in this phrase perfectly encapsulates the dual qualities of sound - abstract and projected against specific and body as source. Campbell’s delicate use of these qualities and her framing of the local and idiosyncratic wrong-foot conventional value judgements and celebrate a democracy of sound. [Darren Rhymes]

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RAPHAEL DANKE @ SORCHA DALLAS Sorcha Dallas is a strange space. Two units: one small white enclosed room, the other with a large window that opens onto the street so that you can look at art as if you were g aw p i n g at th e d oye n n e of a canalside room in Amsterdam. For this show, the Berlin-based artist Raphael Danke has used the first to show a sculpture constructed from two Christian Dior bags cut up and rearranged into a single item so that instead of bearing the designer’s logo the bag now reads ‘Door’. So far, so surrealist. Alongside is a series of cut-up manipulations of the ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn that heavily reference Man Ray. Ditto. In the other room - with the window - he has centred a large sculptural piece. This consists of a series of open doorways that steadily increase

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in size and apparently act as ‘wings’ propelling the “subconscious [to a] more poetic level”, a framed collage, and, on a wall-hung plinth, a small sculpture that references Russian Matryoshka dolls. Again Surrealism is the guiding influence. The large sculpture looks like the result of a collaboration between Max Ernst and M.C Escher - you may think that suggests it is an interesting piece. It is not. The problem with this show is that it seems to be a pointless act in nostalgia. The production values are good and the pieces are neatly presented but they are not using Surrealism as a point of reference, they are merely Surrealism rehashed. The feeling on leaving this show was one of mild depression. If this is the best that the supposedly exciting young commercial galleries in Glasgow have got to offer, then I’m afraid that, in the words of Fritz Lang, you can “include me out”. [John Millar] SORCHA DALLAS, GLASGOW, UNTIL 10 NOV, FREE WWW.SORCHADALLAS.COM

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SOMETIMES YOU’VE GOT TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY IF YOU WANT THE JOB DOING PROPERLY, SO SWIMMER ONE TELL BILLY HAMILTON Yet when The Skinny asks the pairing whether they expected such an enthusiastic reception to the LP, it seems this aura of uncertainty is consigned only to record: “The arrogant but honest answer is that yes, I did expect good reviews because I think it’s a really good album,” exclaims Eaton. “So my main reaction is relief, actually, since it suggests we were n’t c omple t el y d elu d i n g ou r s el ve s .”

It doesn’t take a hydrologist to recognise there’s something stirring in Scotland’s musical waters. From the translucent dementia of The Magnificents to Frightened Rabbit’s cantankerous fuzz scuff les, 2007 has conceived a barrage of outstanding longplayers. Joining this surge through the music industr y’s tumultuous shores is Sw immer O n e w i t h T h e R e g i o n a l Va r i a t i o n s . T he duo of A nd re w E a t on a nd H a m i sh Brown have created a bewitching slow-burning debut that ranks alongside The Twilight Sad’s Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters for sheer atmospherics. Entwined in a spiral of introspection and self-doubt, it’s a record that tugs coyly at the heartstrings; twinkling to the sound of traversing, spacious synths and despondent lyrical vignettes

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indies are, an entrepreneurial reaction to the music industry’s lack of encouragement: “Someti mes you’ve got to get your hands dirty if you want the job doing properly,” says Brown. “So our motives were a combination of control-freakery with an added element of ‘screw you guys, The Regional Variations could be mistaken for we’ll do it ourselves’ thrown yet another doom-laden Scottish decree but scat- in. We remain open to oftered across its bleak panorama is an escalating fers - just not from bampots” speckle of hope: “It’s both a dark and an optimistic record, and I’m pleased that a lot of peo- B u t w i t h b a n d s l i k e ple seem to have picked up on it,” says Eaton. R a d i o h e a d a n d t h e “The album is partly about how you get from C h a rl a t a n s b eg i n n i n g t o one state of mind to the other and I’ve always by pa s s t r a d it ion a l l abel s thought you can’t be truly happy unless you un- in favour of the internet’s derstand what it’s like to be utterly miserable.” free-wheeling climes, what benefits are left in running This feeling is encapsulated on tracks like Largs Biophonic? “How we look and Hum - a brittle composition saturated in poign- sound is entirely up to us and ant notions of Scotland. But Brown is at pains we get to keep more of the to distance the band from any rose-tinted na- money we make,” says Eaton. tionalism: “I don’t really romanticise things Brown chips in: “We’ve bein the same way a lot of tourists do but I am come a la r m i ng ly good at proud to be Scottish,” he explains. “There are administration. That’s really lots of things about Scotland that are pretty what I’m doing with a lapunappealing too and I don’t see us as a Scottish top on stage – managing one band at all, we just happen to be based here.” big fuck off spreadsheet.” T hey may be relucta nt representatives of Scotland’s music scene but since establishing Biphonic Records the couplet have become immersed within it. Now home to fellow electromongers Luxury Car, the label was, as many

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L a d i e s a n d g e n tl e m e n, we’re hurtling towards the end of the year at a meteoric rate; those so-premature-they-should-be-illegal Christmas Currys ads are in full flow while - holed up in a secret underground bunker somewhere - Barry Manilow’s probably flaring his nostrils, poised for another attack on the festive shelves of Woolworths with a round of horrific remasters…may as well be done with it and pull the crackers now eh? But Balboa said it best back in January when he confused us all with a Kravitz quote and mumbled: “It ain’t over til it’s over.” New releases from the likes of Radiohead, Dillinger Escape Plan and Sole with Skyrider (all reviewed this issue) aren’t only messing with the boundaries of musical genres, but it’s last minute revelations like these that have cast our humble verdict on what has been the best album of 2007 into uncertainty. So, to save our chins some third degree burning through excessive stroking, we’d like to know what you reckon. Tell us what your album of the year has been by e-mailing letters@skinnymag.co.uk - no later than 14 November and we’ll collate the results in our end of year poll. /Dave

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FUTURE OF THE LEFT Communicating from “some god-forsaken ferry on the channel” as he made his merry way to Belgium to kick off a European tour with Against Me, Andy Falkous formerly of the mighty McLusky, now of the downright kick-arse Future of the Left - rattles off a list of the albums he’s been pumping to distract him from certain seasickness. Suffice it to say, there’s no Decemberists to be found on this playlist. 1. LES SAVY FAV - LETS STAY FRIENDS 2. KONG - SNAKE MAGNET 3. Q AND NOT U - NO KILL NO BEEP BEEP 4. JAMES BROWN - REALITY 5. ONEIDA - HAPPY NEW YEAR 6. LEONARD COHEN - NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD CEREMONY 7. THE FALL - GROTESQUE 8. HELMET - STRAP IT ON 9. MISSION OF BURMA - VS 10.DANGERDOOM - THE MOUSE AND THE MASK DEBUT ALBUM CURSES IS OUT NOW ON TOO PURE NEW SINGLE MANCHASM IS OUT ON 5 NOV FUTURE OF THE LEFT PLAY BARFLY, GLASGOW ON 6 DEC WWW.FUTUREOFTHELEFT.COM

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Dillinger Escape Plan MEMBERS AND INJURIES COME AND GO BUT THE MASTERS OF MATHCORE CONTINUE TO THRIVE AGAINST INCREDIBLE ODDS, AS JAMIE BORTHWICK LEARNS Known for his bewildering and intense on-stage presence, aggressive vocals that border on dow n r i g ht eye -poppi n g fury and a set of ‘guns’ that would have Ron Burgundy crying over the ‘deep burn’, Greg Puciato gives the word ‘intimidating’ a whole new meaning in an extreme music genre that isn’t exactly renowned for its cuddly characters. Yet the man who’s known to be partial to throwing the odd bit of flaming faeces off stage is in very friendly fettle today. Dillinger Escape Plan have completed a new album, due for release on the 5th of November and the leading single Fix Your Face is receiv ing hundreds of hits on MySpace every day.

prominent on the new Broken Social Scene album will shoot him to stardom, it hasn’t happened yet. Before tonight’s gig a girl approaches him beside the merchandise stall and, completely unaware, asks where she can purchase the support band’s album. On stage, he’s not worried: Drew, band-mate Brendan Canning and a handful of the other Scenesters provide a raucous show, packed with BSS favourites and the best of Drew’s new Spirit If...to an energised Monday night crowd. They meld gentle romantic charm with anthemic bluster, staving off soppiness with voluptuous guitars and the catchiest hooks never to make it to radio. Old favourites Cause=Time and Lovers Spit are given thunderous renditions, but nothing surpasses Drew’s own Farewell To The Pressure Kids, a cacophonous, echo-heavy jam that’s astonishing in size. By rights, Kevin Drew will never go unrecognised in these parts again. (Ally Brown)

Such is the atmosphere that you expect the band to fade eerily into view rather than wander onstage. Once in position, they stand with backs to the audience, launch into Commemorative 9/11 T Shirt, and the crowd is instantly gripped. And it’s easy to see why: Remember Where You Are then surges skywards, the jarring riffs of Catalyst are fit to burst the healthiest of hearts, and the perpetual suspense/ release dynamic is just foreplay for musos. However, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that there’s no such thing as a short Oceansize song, and this is what lets them down: tonight’s set extends already lengthy album tracks almost to the point of overindulgence. That said, few bands inspire this level of devotion, and it’s comforting to see reverence directed at a truly worthy band. [Heather Crumley]

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does lie encased in cement underneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey then Unsane is quite probably what he heard as 100 tons of Brooklyn concrete came down on top of him. For nearly 20 years Chris Spencer has disgorged some of the filthiest riffs ever torn from a Telecaster and with the help of a slide, a harmonica and his distorted, bilious vocals, he’s an arresting frontman. Equally truculent, Dave Curran’s bass guitar suggests a growling Tyrannosaurus Rex whilst Signorelli’s drums are the sound of it pounding down the street after you. Tonight the New York trio roar into life with select tracks from latest opus Visqueen before unleashing some of their more infamous back-catalogue, and a modest Glasgow audience are thus thoroughly bludgeoned. It’s a huge, brutal and utterly awesome sound throughout which makes Unsane quite simply the heaviest, angriest blues band on earth. (Chris Cusack)

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KING TUT’S, 20 NOV After shunning major label interest for most of their career, it took a split single with Nirvana to drag David Yow and his fellow noise rockers in Jesus Lizard quite literally kicking and screaming into the upper echelons of the UK Top 40. As moments in rock ’n’ roll history go, this was just the latest in a slew of bizarre mainstream infiltrations by the alternative movement of the day. Now, in an age where it takes an NME campaign just to get a Sex Pistols song on the radio, it seems even more unlikely that the dastardly front man’s new band Qui will be emulating that same strange success. But never mind the bollocks: Yow’s got other things on his mind since he recently made a fulltime return to music after an eight year sabbatical. “There were some weird rumours going around: I had read that I was a murderer, I had read that I was a junkie and I had read that I was dead.” Playing their fierce amalgam of sleaze-punk and swamp blues at Tut’s this month, Qui prove that Yow’s very much alive and still kicking. Reports from gigs to date have been of midgets throwing golf balls at the band and a demented female ‘fan’ punching Yow in the head until he bled on stage at a gig in Texas earlier in the year - clear reminders of the kind of nonsense that only this man can provoke. (Johnny Langlands)

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Parts and Labor’s drums, bass and keyboard line-up may not seem like a recipe for rock enlightenment, but the New York trio create a noise that belies their humble stature and nerdish appearance. With amps turned steadfastly to 11 and everything pushed deep into the red, theirs is a gloriously fuzzed-up and feedback-drenched sound, shuddering on the edge of melodic collapse. Their strength lies in the marrying of this raucous noise with a good ear for anthemic, danceable tunes and those all important infectious pop hooks, pushed to near breaking point by the walls of distortion. Anchored by the rock solid drumming of new recruit Joe Wong and the distorted bass of BJ Warshaw, overlayed with Dan Friel’s melodic keyboard and guitar lines, they strike a near perfect balance between chaotic frenzy and pop nirvana. For those who always wished that Lightning Bolt were less intimidating and more catchy, Parts and Labor could well be the answer to your prayers. (Alex Woodward)

“It’s going be a ripper basically,” sums up Puciato on his feelings for the track. The tune features plenty of the technical, time signature shredding madness that has characterised the band’s existence but the vocalist is quick to point out that the album Ire Works is an expansive and varied recording. “The last record was more l i ke g row i n g pa i n s,” he says. “It was more like us reaching for something and I don’t think we quite got what we were reaching for. In my mind I hear what we were trying to do, but I’m not sure we did it or not. On the new record everything we set out to do, on all levels- songwriters, players, everything- is exactly as we wanted it to be.”

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CABARET VOLTAIRE, 17 NOV With his exploits in paint, pen and guitar, Joseph Arthur may be something of a renaissance man, but it’s all about the music on this upcoming tour. The last time the Ohio born troubadour stopped by Auld Reekie he indulged in a spot of live art in tandem with the music, but he’s at his most beguiling when facing the audience, guitar in hand and a spaghetti junction of pedals and gizmos at his feet. His albums are multi-layered, full-band works, but Arthur can perform faithful – even superior – versions of his songs solo. On his European tour for Our Shadows Will Remain he conjured beats, bass and backing out of a tattered old acoustic guitar with the aid of a few loops and distortions. With a further two albums released in the past year alone, the prolific Arthur is sure to be at his talismanic best. [Nick Mitchell] 7PM, £11.50 WWW.JOSEPHARTHUR.COM

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Puciato’s enthusiasm for this record is borne from a combination of relief at finally pressing a follow-up to 2004’s Miss Machine - his recording debut with the band - and a sense of great fortune that Dillinger are still with the musical world “YOU KNOW WHAT WE ALWAYS REMEMBER ABOUT SCOTLAND...EVERY SINat all. Last year drummer and founding member Chris Pennie GLE TIME WE’VE PLAYED THERE, WE’VE SEEN SOMEONE GET ARRESTED.” left the band and the mathcore Europe, dates which have yet to be rearranged. Just as endearing for him is the music of stalwarts were staring into the Glasgow treasures Mogwai. “Oh Mogwai, I abyss. “His drumming and his style were such a big part. When we split with Chris, we really Playing live is what Puciato and DEP live for. love them man. I haven’t seen them live. We thought we were up shit creek,” Puciato recalls. It’s where they made their name, playing con- actually tried to tour with them a couple of frontational and often controversial shows times and it fell through but they’re brilliant.” Dillinger’s redemption came in the form of where microphone stands, instruments and Gil Sharone, a highly skilled and respected body fluids were constantly airborne. Having F i n a l ly, h av i n g pu l led ou r s elve s out of percussionist, but one with next to no expe- not played a gig since summer 2006, Puciato a lengthy and passionate discussion on the rience in heavy music. “Gil was a guy who is desperate to get on the road again, and our multitudinous merits of Mogwai, Sigur Ros, was recommended to us by Chris Horn from own territory is a place that holds some vivid Pelican et al, Puciato has one message for Poison the Well and he was like ‘I know this memories for the frontman. “You know what the fans he remembers from his trips to guy and he’s seriously one of the best drum- we always remember about Scotland. The club Alba. “We really appreciate that people still mers I’ve ever heard.’ He came in and just that we always play there - The Cathouse? give a shit and at shows we’ll still see the basically killed it. I just couldn’t be happier Every single time we’ve played there, we’ve same faces of people from four years ago in with him. He didn’t come from a metal band or seen someone get arrested outside. We liter- Scotland and it’s really nice to feel that it’s a hardcore band; a lot of his roots are in jazz ally watched someone 0get run over by a car not something people are growing out of.” and reggae. It truly adds a different element.” outside once, we’ve seen two girls get into a fist fight and some guys got arrested for doing And if the new record is half as infectious as Sharone has since committed to joining the the same another time.” Perhaps this isn’t a Puciato’s enthusiasm for it, no amount of broband full-time and will tour along with fel- testimony we’ll be seeing on a VisitScotland ken bones or departing drummers will dampen low newcomer, guitarist Jeff Tuttle. That’s if ad too soon, but Puciato certainly isn’t put the public’s interest in Dillinger Escape Plan. Dillinger can finally get on the road of course. off. “When it happens I’m not even shocked In early October guitarist Ben Weinman broke anymore. I’ve come to think of it as like some IRE WORKS IS RELEASED ON 5 NOV VIA WARNER his foot during a video shoot, immediately kind of endearing charm about the place.” WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DILLINGERESCAPEPLAN shelving the planned tours of the States and

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Neil Peart, Rush’s brilliant drummer, is an Objectivist. Maybe that’s why their show tonight is so disappointing. Objectivists believe that the Ego is supreme. Individualism and selfishness are virtues to be treasured; altruism is a big no-no, so kudos to Peart and Rush for sticking by their principles. By playing new album Snakes and Arrows in its entirety, this tour may be his two fingered salute to the world. This is his version of Howard Roark’s - fictional architect in Ayn Rand’s literary vehicle for Objectivism, The Fountainhead - infamous courtroom soliloquy. The drones exiting the venue an hour early, however, suggests that Objectivists are thin on the ground on a Wednesday night in Glasgow. At £50 a ticket, principles go out the window. These people, mostly devout fans, paid for the classics. What they heard was impeccably delivered, but really quite boring, apparently leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of almost everybody but the hardcore. (Finbarr Bermingham))

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MALCOLM MIDDLETON THE LIQUID ROOM, 6 DEC

Together as Arab Strap, Aiden Moffat and Malcolm Middleton were Scottish music’s greatest duo (don’t give me any of your Proclaimers nonsense). Now apart, they’re proving just as irrepressible. We gave the latest of Middleton’s three solo albums - A Brighter Beat - a glowing review back in February, even going as far as suggesting the downbeat singer had songs which “border[ed] on joyous.” His first two solo albums weren’t half bad either, even if they were melancholy in the extreme. On this UK mini-tour, expect Middleton to try out some of his new songs . He may currently be recording an “acoustic(ish) mini(ish)” new album, but he will be backed by a full band. (Ally Brown)

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KING TUT’S, 7 OCT The inexplicable warm up music - Motley Crue’s Girls, Girls, Girls - enters its death throws and a series of clicks heralds Oceansize’s arrival.

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What to say about the Klaxons that hasn’t already been said by any self-consciously avant-garde culture magazine, broadsheet mock-social-anthropologist or middle-aged Mercury Music Prize judge? Whatever you think of their responsibility for a rash of neon-splattered t-shirts in the local H&M, or the fact that it is now socially acceptable to bring a glow stick to a club again (well, maybe not), you can’t deny that Myths Of The Near Future was a much-needed kick in the groin for the increasingly staid indie scene back in January. The doubters who had them down as a novelty act were soon eating their words when the Thomas Pynchonquoting trio earned almost unanimously positive reviews and were heralded as pioneers of a new breed of indie-dance crossover. Anyone who witnessed their festival appearances this summer will testify to their ability to induce mass hysteria in their youthful following. Just don’t mention the N-R word. [Nick Mitchell]

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CLASSIC GRAND, 8 NOV It might help to picture this Californian rock duo as the White Stripes’ evil twins (though they’ll hate you for this). Purveyors of guitar n’ drums blues minimalism they may both be but, where Meg White seems intent on bludgeoning her drum kit into submission, so drummer Tyson Vogel syncopates melodically on the hi-hats and cymbals. Where Jack White comes over all Hollywood (impeccably presented and a predictable happy ending), so singer/guitarist Adam Stephens rasps and wails subversively on subjects such as murder, theft and racism - themes that, when you think about it, no self-respecting modern blues act should be ignoring. Not afraid to break the spartan sound up with supplementary piano and cello arrangements, their live sets have been known to descend, in true rock fashion, into utter anarchy. Pack your tasers! (Paul Mitchell) 7.30PM, £10 WWW.TWOGALLANTS.COM

GEORGE CLINTON THE ARCHES, 4 NOV

The Parliament-Funkadelic gigs of the 70s are the stuff of legend: giant spaceships descending from the ceiling, wild dancing in outrageous and bizarre costumes, and the loudest, skankiest funk ever heard performed by up to thirty musicians on-stage. George Clinton’s Arches gig might not quite match up to those brushes with inter-planetary first contact, but it’s well worth beholding for anyone even remotely interested in funk. It’s no over-statement to say Clinton is a genius, one of James Brown’s few peers and a leader to funk’s greatest players like Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley (each of whom joined Clinton’s P-Funk revolution after honing their chops with JB). And even if the Arches doesn’t birth any UFOs or time-travelling wizards, 66-year old Clinton, with his multi-coloured dreads and wacky on-stage antics, is still the radgest pensioner you’re ever likely to encounter. (Ally Brown) THE ARCHES, GLASGOW, 7PM, £17.50 WWW.GEORGECLINTON.COM

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NICE ‘N’ SLEAZY, 4 NOV Elvis – son of late actor Anthony and Vogue photographer Berry - Perkins won hearts and accolades on both sides of the Atlantic with his debut album Ash Wednesday back in June. When The Skinny recently asked the suave troubadour how wandering the earth for most of 2007 had impacted on his music, the man answered in riddles: “Well, I’ve experienced mostly highways, greenrooms and strangers in the past year so the next record might be full of numbers moving quickly through the fields of the familiar and on into the face of the unknown.” Perkins places much value on his band of travelling companions, Dearland, and what they add to the live incarnation of his melancholy folk-rock sound. “Dearland is made up of Nicholas Kinsey, Brigham Brough and Wyndham Garnett. The current family includes some roving members and it may grow over time, but there won’t be a Dearland without these gentlemen.” [Hamza K] 8.30PM, £7.50 WWW.ELVISPERKINS.NET

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entitled Oh Mercy to plug, they allude to no signs of a flagging enthusiasm for the business called show. And “show” is an apt description for tonight’s high octane performance, with frontman Sammy James Jr. stealing the focus at every given opportunity, whether by taking a mid-song wander through the crowd during a euphoric sounding Alive and Amplified, or by imploring it to invade the stage for the rollicking set-closer. Meanwhile, lead guitarist Graham Tyler completes a guitar solo lying on his back. Good ole-fashioned rock n ‘roll clichés, y’all, but unfortunately the tunes can’t quite live up to the entertainment value of the presentation: once you’ve heard one Suzukis tune you’ve basically heard them all. At least there’s fun to be had in Alcohol, the band’s hilarious ode to all things boozy which, appropriately enough, provides a welcome change of pace from the one-dimensional riffage - even if it does smack of novelty factor. (Barry Jackson)

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THE LIQUID ROOM, 18 OCT Encountering a fair few what-thefucks in response to their ‘re-imagining’ of Don Henley and Black Flag songs, as Dave Longstreth and his Dirty Projectors (4/5) have, tonight they show convention the window in favour of the main man’s lounge jazz vocals – at one point sounding as though he’s about to break into Fly Me to the Moon – ill-fittingly twisted around the constant distraction of his drummer’s wayward rhythms. But this warring of styles ultimately pays off and the Dirty Projectors win the Liquid Room over unconditionally. John Stanier pensively looks skywards at his crash cymbal while the rest of Battles huddle round for another session of communicating with little more than a wink and a nod. This is to signal, of course, that it’s quite OK for the drummer’s limbs to burst into motion with piston-like precision and lend a solid backbone to the fierce but poppy array of beats and riff shards found throughout the Brooklyn quartet’s back catalogue. From Tras to Tonto via Atlas, the crowd turns to putty in their mathematic mitt. At one point Tyondai Braxton steps away from all the guitar noodling, MPC sampling and Oompa Loompa vocals to marvel at the finesse of this orchestrated chaos, refined through three EPs, one LP and five years of tinkering. They might lose a few followers in their ambient lulls from time to time but you could probably write that off as jetlag, because tonight is one of those rare occasions when it feels like the 21st century has finally arrived. (Dave Kerr) WWW.BTTLS.COM

KING CREOSOTE QUEEN’S HALL, 29 SEP

When Kenny Anderson threatens to drop a bombshell, you’d do well to find the nearest bunker and batten down the hatch, pronto. As he aims to give away some devastating revelation on every night of this

tour, tonight’s tale of how he came to lose a Durness crowd detonates in a way which leaves a bamboozled expression on many a mug in the Queens Hall. It’s lucky then that King Creosote and his bomb squad of Fencers have a few tunes in their arsenal to help exercise a spot of damage control. Lilting ballad Leslie blends well with the perennial beauty of Not One Bit Ashamed, while a bass heavy mix of You’ve No Clue Do You sources its galloping groove from an old Euro trance number. Klutz benefits from The Pictish Trail’s maverick guitar playing, although the whammy bar soloing inevitably descends into Marty McFly-like chaos by the encore. Fire in the hole! (Dave Kerr) WWW.KINGCREOSOTE.COM

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CORN EXCHANGE, 10 OCT Ten years on from The Stone Roses’ implosion and while axe-master Squire most likely whiles away his time strumming an acoustic guitar watching The Jeremy Kyle Show, Brown is busy selling out venues like the Corn Exchange on a regular basis. Who’d have thunk it? Such is the self-proclaimed shaman’s confidence that at one stage tonight he even tries his hand at an ill-advised drum solo during the mid-session interval. His drumming proves no worse than his singing however; a unique “style” best described as braying into a bucket. The quality of Brown’s solo output has always been a hit-and-miss affair, and tonight is, you could say, a gig of two halves. For a man held in such reverence there is a surprisingly considerable drift to the bar during a fairly lacklustre first half dominated by tunes from a new album most of the crowd are as yet unfamiliar with. Nevertheless a stirring second half saves the day, with a highly charged My Star and the cheebahtastic funk of Golden Gaze upping the ante, so that by the time a bagpiper comes on to play Flower of Scotland and old ‘Roses classics I Am The Resurrection and I Wanna Be Adored have been dispatched, everybody’s faith in the magic of King Monkey has been well and

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truly reasserted. (Barry Jackson) WWW.MYSPACE.COM/IANBROWN

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backdrop, leaving the audience in no doubt as to the veracity of their name. The response from the crowd leaves little doubt that they in turn like iLiKETRAiNS. [Darren Carle] WWW.ILIKETRAINS.CO.UK

Armed with a projector which presents flashing images of burning buildings and doomed Antarctic explorers, iLiKETRAiNS certainly know how to put on a cataclysmic show as they bolster the historical gravitas of their already weighty debut album. However, even when it breaks down during the chilling Death of an Idealist, it only helps to focus more on the beguiling appeal of this macabre quintet, ominously dressed in black ties with black mourning armbands. In fact, they effortlessly command attention for the duration, even though they remain suitably impassive, stoic even, until the epic crescendo of Spencer Perceval ignites them into a flurry of hair and flailing limbs. As they leave amidst a riotous cacophony of feedback, the British Rail symbol is projected onto the

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WEE RED BAR, 11 OCT No strangers to these pages, sevenpiece BROKEN RECORDS (4/5) follow in the orkestar-vein with violins and accordions. Whether or not they’re a knock on effect from Beirut’s fledgling success is debatable but if lively shows with a full band engaging the audience are the consequences of Zach Condon’s pilgrimage through European shanties then play away. Tonight the band is on top form, playing with skill and nuance. If this indie-orchestral sound takes off, and there is no reason why it shouldn’t, their only concern is how they’ll all fit in a tour bus. It seems the Records are spinning in good company: with a multi-task-

ing indie orchestra featuring violin and cello in tow, SHADY BARD’s sprawling display of merchandise suggests a band with hopes of hitting the big leagues. And if tonight’s Wee Red performance is any measure, they should start practising pouts for front covers now. The jumping, nervous words on stand out track Bobby could be about Dylan, or Kennedy, or me, or you. While other songs could do with further drafts, and their melodies more texture, the band’s stage presence, innovation and energy could qualify them as Britain’s own answer to the Arcade Fire. (Hamza K) WWW.SHADYBARD.CO.UK

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“Four sweaty guys with guitars says nothing to me about my life,” opines Los Campesinos! singer Aleksandra. That’s fighting talk round these parts! But whilst such indie-iconoclasm is always welcome, it requires, nay demands, some musical muscle and ingenuity to fill the void you’re attempting to expose. As such this Welsh septet are in no position to be sounding off quite so grandly. Their twee Dexy’s fiddling and hackneyed Arcade Fire pretences, combined with a lack of expected youthful exuberance, fails to ripple through a packed audience, no doubt drawn by the promise of something more incendiary from these bright young things. Perhaps Aleksandra’s, ahem, ‘unique’ haircut, a never-before-seen hybrid of Adolph Hitler and Boris Johnson, acts as a suitable counterpoint to tonight’s show in that it is at least different and therefore memorable. Only by redressing this imbalance can Los Campesinos! hope to earn their place on the pop soapbox. [Darren Carle] WWW.LOSCAMPESINOS.COM

If the garage-rock revival is a ship that has well and truly sailed by now, then nobody has bothered telling The Mooney Suzuki. This hairier than thou quartet from New York have been strutting around stages for nigh on a decade, and with a new album

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1. RADIOHEAD - RECKONER How could I not greet you with this? More than any other artist - more than the Arctic Monkeys, Sandy Thom and Lily Allen put together - Radiohead have with In Rainbows demonstrated that they “get” the internet, that they understand its challenges, opportunities, and the so-simple way it can work. Ten days after announcing it was finished, they released an album and made it initially available only online; they asked you to pay what you liked; and it’s this. Their simplest record in years, their prettiest ever, and at its centre this gorgeous ballad: falsetto, strings, scattering drums, the pearliest guitar-line you’ve ever heard. Remembering the lessons of Four Tet, Spoon and ten years on the sea. DOWNLOAD AT: WWW.INRAINBOWS.COM

2. RED PONY CLOCK - HERE COMES THE SUN San Diego’s Red Pony Clock sound like a bit of a shambles, but proudly so. This album’s called Paisley and Twee, there’s squeezebox and melodica, off-key singing, a melody like the chug of smog from smokestacks. They’ll not soon be duetting with Elton John, but I can imagine them sneaking into a screening of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, of fering a wear y, improvised soundtrack. DOWNLOAD AT: WWW.HHBTM.COM/BANDS/RPC.HTML

3. FROGGYSTEIN - THE FLOWERS ARE BLOOMING MySpace says their influences are: jokes, Xiu Xiu, coffee, Raymond Carver. But you might as well say wildflowers, fist-fights, the Flaming Lips, and sex. Because Froggystein’s fucked up bedroom pop is as much thrown punches and cracked one-liners, as much psych-rock as mid-20thcentury American fiction. That is to say, it’s a mess of things; noisy, sudden, melancholy, beautiful, a kickstart to your ailing heart. “So flowers are blooming / and it’s time to rise. / So get up to go on being you and me / you, me.” DOWNLOAD AT: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/FROGGYSTEIN

4. BARONS AND LENGTHY WHEEL AND DEAL (LIVE) Mr Barons and Lengthy has a ragged voice that recalls Bruce Springsteen, Ted Leo, even Win Butler, but there’s a jubilance in the way he sings, a pleasure he takes in his hoarsening, that allows him to stand apart, and even at times above, those others. Wheel and Deal is backroom garage-pop infused with a modest Motown pulse, and it’s more fun than even your favourite Friday night.

With a showdow n against Italy on 17 Nov holding things in the balance, what a journey it’s been for Scotland through the qualif y i ng stages of Eu ro 20 0 8. Ver y few of us will ever forget what we were doi ng when James McFadden un leashed that beaut y in Paris. I certainly won’t – I was stood on Sauchiehall Street smoking a fag. As a long term sufferer of poor Scottish football performances, plucky draws and glorious defeats, I am over the moon at the turnaround in Scottish football. But I’m secretly dreading that we might actually qualify – because that would mean a song for Europe. For a nation of 5 million, I’d say we do well to produce 11 men capable of representing us on the football field. If only the same were true of the embarrassing musicians we produce. Yes, if we had to pick a squad of dow nright average musicians to ride the Scotland bandwagon we’d be fine. The starting 11 almost picks itself. Stewart. Reid. Reid. McManus. Munro. Ross. Nutini. Browne. McDonald. McDonald. Danesh. T hey’d a l l b e t r ippi n g over t hei r t a rt a n sc a r ve s to get i nvolved i n t he official Scotland song. Rod Stewart? A man who looks like a scarecrow, and isn’t even Scottish. The Proclaimers? They scare me. Let’s face it; there was a Charlie or a Craig at every school in Scotland. They were nicknamed ChooChoo and collected dead things. Ronnie Browne – the bloke from the Corries that performs Flower of Scotland at home games in the style of drunken uncle at an alcoholic’s wedding. None of these people fill me with confidence that our ‘national’ song would be anything less than appalling.

It needs a bit of work, but it could save us from another dirge like Del Amitri’s Don’t Come Home too Soon from ’98. And let’s learn lessons from other countries – under no circumstances should any of our players try rapping.

5. EZRA FURMAN AND THE HARPOONS - God is a Middle-Aged Woman Ezra Furman dreams of being a young Bob Dylan - he and the Harpoons have even recorded a short film about “going electric”. And this would be maddening or clichéd were Furman’s talent not kinda incendiary, and at the very least a blast to discover. God is a MiddleAged Woman is an elaborate metaphor about a sad universe, expressed as a country waltz with harmonica, electric guitar, Furman’s straining vocals. “And I love the way [God] looks / and I just want her to be happy. / I wish I could talk some sense / into her troubled head.”

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Celebrating the release of their new album, Love/Hate, Manchester foursome NINE BLACK ALPS are sure to set pulses racing at CABARET VOLTAIRE ON 5 NOV with their blend of high octane riffola and infectious pop knowhow. Nirvana comparisons may still be ubiquitous, but these boys will be out to prove that evolution is not a myth. Has the potential to be epic. THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER have always been a solid proposition as far as live shows go, and they’ll be out to maintain their track record of mostly flaying everyone’s asses to hell and back with evil rock noise when they play THE HIVE ON 6 NOV. Their lead singer sounds like Elvis on crack, mid-orgasm. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it. Essential. No one does eccentric quite as well as BRITISH SEA POWER, but by golly they’ve got tunes as well. When they’re not busy collecting foliage to use in their live show, they’re usually off writing haunting, understated epics and rollicking, skin-of-your-teeth broadsides. Ever changing, and always worth watching – ignore them at your peril. CABARET VOLTAIRE 7 NOV. High Priest of the church of Shit-hop, KID CARPET returns to CABARET VOLTAIRE ON 19 NOV to amuse, confuse and delight. Combining self-deprecating humour, bad vocals and the sustained abuse of children’s electronic toys, this is as much a performance piece as a gig. Having said that, Joseph Beuys never rocked a Fisher Price guitar half as well as this dude.

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Contending with the recent departure of guitarist Colin Mee, the hipsters’ band du jour, DEERHUNTER, will have a point to prove when they play ABC 2 ON 4 NOV. Expect swirling tapestries of psychedelic noise, trippy vocals and a weird, wired energy. Despite the hype, which was part of the reason Mee left, they’re still really fucking good. Having caused a bit of a stir with their recent, and excellent, re-imagining of Black Flag’s Rise Above album, THE DIRTY PROJECTORS will get freak y at NICE ‘N’ SLEAZY ON 24 NOV. E xpect the unexpected, folks: these guys have played in museums before now, and there’s a good chance they’ll get pretty avant garde on all your asses. Jet this is not. Skinny favourites ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK will be looking to do some old school damage at the BARFLY ON 25 NOV. When it comes down to it, what more could you ask for than a cold beer, a bag of fuzzy riffs and three metalloving Tokyo lads hell bent on proving that Sabbath were, in actual fact, pussies? You know it makes sense. Hot on the heels of a critically lauded new album, Parades, Danish five-piece EFTERKLANG will take over THE ARCHES ON 27 NOV. With a sound that has only become more lush and magical with age, it can’t be long before they ascend to stand shoulder to shoulder with fellow titans of epic melancholy, Sigur Ros.

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FILM FESTIVAL 14 TO 24 FEBRUARY

COMPETITION: SOUNDTRACK FOR ‘08

‘Soundtrack for 08’ is the Glasgow Film Festival’s competition created to unearth and reward the best song or tune that deserves to be heard. Every unsigned artist/band can submit one song into the competition into the music style of their choice – rock, techno….you decide! The soundtrack will be used for a 20 and 60 second trailer. This will appear on premier/community screens around Glasgow and as a sting before all films during the GFF. This is your chance to get your music out there!

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If and - I hope - when we get to Austria and Switzerland, let’s leave the fey, overly patriotic stuff behind in the same cupboard Bertie Voghts lives in. Stick Runrig, Deacon Blue and those blokes off X Factor in a cell and make them eat the key. Let’s get a really good anthem written and recorded to inspire us properly. I’m all in favour of the Fratellis drummer setting up a supergroup – perhaps Mince and the Tatties – featuring the 1990s, the Dykeenies, Figure 5, Shirley Manson and the one out of Coldplay that comes from Fife.

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The advert will celebrate Glasgow’s DIY and grass roots culture with a comical nod to the iconic but clichéd HOLLYWOOD hills lettering. Please send your submission on CD to Soundtrack for 08, Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB or contact info@glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk by 19 November 2007. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: NO PAYMENT/ROYALTIES WILL BE AVAILABLE. GFF RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THE COMPETITION OR MAKE CHANGES TO THE COMPETITION REQUIREMENTS AT ANY TIME.

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Metal Up Your Ass!

Hot Hot Heat

MUSIC:RESPONSE TOP 10

1. COLD WAR KIDS - WE USED TO VACATION 2. SONS & DAUGHTERS – GILT COMPLEX 3. HARD FI – CAN’T GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU 4. BLOC PARTY - FLUX 5. ADELE - HOMETOWN GLORY 6. THE TWANG – PUSH THE GHOSTS 7. NINE BLACK ALPS - BITTER END 8. THE RUMBLE STRIPS - TIME 9. MEXICOLAS – COME CLEAN 10. FOO FIGHTERS – LONG ROAD TO RUIN

TOP 5 RECOMMENDED ALBUMS

1. NINE BLACK ALPS - LOVE / HATE 2. RUMBLE STRIPS - GIRLS & WEATHER 3. RILOKILEY - UNDER THE BACKLIGHT 4. KING CREOSOTE - BOMBSHELL 5. RADIOHEAD - IN RAINBOWS

Remember, remember, the riff in November. There are six prime metal shows exploding over Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee this month so get plotting your November gig-going now with MUYA’s recommended firecrackers.

“I just thought we were going for a drink!” laughs guitarist Luke Paquin of Hot Hot Heat’s recruitment process. “We just met up in a bar in California, drank a lot of beer and then they asked if I wanted to fly up to Vancouver and jam. At first, I was like ‘Ok, it doesn’t necessarily mean anything’s going to happen.’ But it was just good right away - there was an undeniable chemistry.”

Volatile Leeds firestarters, BEASTS, make Dundee’s Balcony Bar their destination for ferocious punk hardcore on 4 Nov, with DURAI and ATTACK THE HIVE shoring up the bill. The 13th Note will be shaken to the core by Londoners KNUCKLEDUST who head up a brutal Saturday with BROKEN OATH and THE YEAR IS ONE on 10 Nov. Friday the 16 Nov is a toss up either side of the M8 between emerging Glasgow radio-friendly electro-metal band DARKWATER at The Cathouse or LAVOTCHKIN - more likely to burn down ‘The Grove’ than the Houses of Parliament- the angular Geordie riot-starters playing with Omerta at Edinburgh’s The Hive. Also at The Hive this month are popular mosh-merchants WAR FROM A HARLOT’S MOUTH, in what should be a busy night of jag-tastic antics also featuring Intronaut on 22 Nov. Then, on 29 Nov, the cavernous arena of the SECC will be full to the brim for the latest stop on the Black Crusade. Headlining with MACHINEHEAD, the touring show features popular-cos-they’re-fast DRAGONFORCE, apple-cheeked goons TRIVIUM, ARCH ENEMY, a n d m e l a n c h o l y t r y - h a r d s SHADOWS FALL. I believe if you miss all of these, you can be hung for treason.

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“I THINK SOME OF THE BEST IDEAS COME TO YOU AT FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU’RE LAYING IN A DITCH IN ITALY, YOU KNOW?”

JIM GELLATLY’S X-POSURE TOP 10 1. GLASVEGAS - DADDY’S GONE 2. THE STEEPLES - BRITNEY’S TEARS 3. THE WOMBATS - LET’S DANCE TO JOY DIVISION 4. THE FIRE AND I - REVENGE TO THE BLOODY ANGEL 5. PENDULUM - GRANITE 6. CAGE THE ELEPHANT - FREE LOVE 7. OPERATOR PLEASE - LEAVE IT ALONE 8. REMI NICOLE - ROCK N ROLL 9. WAKE THE PRESIDENT - REMEMBER FUN? 10. THE WHIP - SISTER SIAM

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Luke who’s talking:

Luke is the newest member of Hot Hot Heat, drafted when guitarist Dante De Caro left following the completion of the second album, 2004’s Elevator, but his belief in the band is already unshakable, given that he is happy to enthuse about new album Happiness LTD despite the fact my phone call has obviously woken him up (what trans-Atlantic time difference?!). And enthuse he should - released in September, Happiness LTD is a huge leap forward, and shows there’s much more to the band than jerky pogo-pop.

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“It feels much more alive - it better represents who we are as a band now,” Luke says of the album. “We wrote most of the songs with the live show in mind, and the rocking type songs always go down best live so writing on the road meant that some of the songs came out a lot harder than you might expect from us.

“I don’t even remember whose idea it was to put the orchestra on that,” Luke laughs, “It started as acoustic guitar and Steve’s [Bays, singer] voice - it was the most elaborate process! I’m a bit wary of string sections, but I think we got away with it! It works for that song so it doesn’t come across as obnoxious.” Maybe it’s Luke’s influence, but the band have a new, ballsy attitude, almost as if they’ve decided how good they can be and want to make sure everyone else recognises it. And while this newfound confidence will carry them some way, they are aware that it’s going to take of a lot of work. As Luke says, “We were on the road for a year and a half when we toured Elevator, and we started sounding so good. Now we’re at the beginning of another rotation, we need to learn how to be the best live band in the world again.” He considers this for a moment. “Gee, that sounded arrogant!”

“I guess most bands hole themselves up somewhere and try to get creative,” he muses over the band’s decision to write while on tour, “but I think some of the best ideas come to you at five o’clock in the morning when you’re laying in a ditch in Italy, you know? One of the best things about being in music is travelling all over the world, so if that doesn’t breed creativ ity, I don’t know what w ill.”

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Creativity is perhaps not a word associated with Hot Hot Heat (you’ll most likely remember them for repetitive single Bandages), but the new album takes a lot of risks, most notably on the strung-out Outta Heart, which features a distinctly un-jerky-pop orchestra.

Arrogant or not, Hot Hot Heat have grown i nto a band w ith fi re i n the bel ly, and, more importantly, into a force to be reckoned with. Write them off at your own risk. HOT HOT HEAT PLAY ORAN MOR ON 10 NOV HAPPINESS LTD IS OUT NOW ON SIRE WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HOTHOTHEAT

by Ian Sankey

POPULAR, HEAVY AS CANCER, AND BEARING A REPUTATION FOR ILL BEHAVIOUR? YES, YES AND YES. IF YOU’RE FEELING SUITABLY DEATHLY, PREPARE TO TAKE ON THESE SHEFFIELD NOISEMONGERS AS THEY ROCK INTO SCOTLAND Deathcore, for the uninitiated, is the result of an unholy (one ca n on ly a s su me) a m a l ga m a tion of death metal and metalcore. The latter being the union of metal and ha rdcore; ha rdcore in turn being the combination of metal and punk. Confused? The e volut ion a r y t re e of hard rock, it seem s, wou ld vex even the most talented ta xonomist. It’s u n l i kely t h a t the intricate roots of t hei r a s cr ib e d genre are much concer n for Shef f ield five-piece, Bring Me The Horizon, however. ‘Met a lcore’ s ou nd s ‘co ol’ a nd at t h i s st age i n their careers,

t h a t’s l i kely t o b e a s much t hou g ht a s t hey g ive t he mat ter. Qu ite r ig ht ly too. The band shot into the public eye after winni ng the Ker rang! Award for 2007’s best newcomers and, after taking on a valiant touring schedule - including appearances at events such as the Download festival - they have amassed a loyal army across the UK. Like all good deathcore popstars, BMTH are comfor table bedfel lows w ith controversy. Following a gig in Nottingham earlier this year, frontman Oliver Sykes is alleged to have responded to a young female fan’s refusal to succumb to his romantic appeals by urinating on and bottling her. A ny publicity, eh? Fortunately for Sykes and his minstrels the subsequent assault charge was dismissed due to lack of evidence and the band were free to continue their quest for deathcore glory. Tabloid scandal and preposterous hairstyles aside, Bring Me The Horizon are clearly very good at what they do in the studio and the live arena. With two critically acclaimed releases under their skinny-fit belts, 2005’s This Is W hat the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For and 2006’s Count Your Blessing (both on Visible Noise) plus the respect of their peers in the bag, they’re already a for-

midable force on the UK metal scene. Brash, bold, uninhibited and impossibly energetic, on stage BMTH are as happy as roundworms in a pork chop. Clearly that same devil-maycare outlook which allows one to happily soil a young lady’s vestments with the fruits of your bladder also equips one to deliver an exciting and unpredictable performance. This is a band whose gigs are frequently saddled with the “not to be missed” tag. The band are currently making preparations for their first antipodean adventure where they will be joining Dave Mustaine’s semi nal thra shers Megadeth on the “Gigantour”, taking in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. No, we don’t know why it’s called Gigantour either but it’s no doubt an exciting prospect for such a young band. Be on the safe side and lock up your daughters though, Australia. Or at least make sure they leave for the show with a good (and not particularly cared for) raincoat.

BRING ME THE HORIZON PLAY MOSHULU, ABERDEEN ON WED 28 NOV AND CATHOUSE, GLASGOW, ON THU 29 NOV, £10 WWW.MYSPACE.COM/BMTH

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and record with the same people again. We were only gonna do three records and then quit so we decided to do the fourth one in a different way.” Hang on, surely they weren’t serious about quitti ng? “Not real ly. We were four teen when we made that th ree -record pla n.” That’s right, The Hives go right back, and Vigilante is pretty tetchy about people seeing 2002’s Your New Favourite Band as their point of inception. “We’ve been releasing records since ‘97, pretty much doing what we did in 2002,” he mumbles. “We’ve always been put in different scenes. We were in the Swedish hardcore punk scene and I guess in 2002 the garage rock scene came along and people put us in with that.” As is so often the case, the intervention of Alan McGee – the Scottish music impresario with the uncanny knack of poking his nose in at just the right time – was crucial to The Hives’ success in Britain. “We were signed to a Swedish label and [McGee] saw us on a TV show and he wanted to release something,” Vigilante sighs demurely. “Since we were signed to a different label we decided to just make a compilation, so Your New Favourite Band was a mix of songs from previous albums.”

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Back to Black (And White) REMEMBER THE HIVES? YOUR NEW FAVOURITE BAND IN 2002 HAVE RETURNED, BUT DON’T EXPECT JUST MORE OF THE SAME, AS GUITARIST VIGILANTE CARLSTOM TELLS NICK MITCHELL A member of The Hives should need no encouragement to exercise his vocal chords in interview. Recall if you will: they are the band from Sweden who swept in on the garage rock revival of the early noughties with their kinetic, monochrome punk; the band who sold t-shirts with slogans like “The Hives Are Law – You Are Crime”; the band with a singer called Howlin’ Pelle who spent most gigs rambling about why his band was so good; the band whose press release on the eve of their imminent return is a frenzy of superlatives and exclamation marks – not to mention hyperventilating repetition of the word ‘Yeah!’ So when The Skinny calls a London hotel and asks to be put through to room 204, the temporary lodgings of guitarist Vigilante Carlstroem, it is a surprise to be greeted with a deep-toned but barely audible drawl. It doesn’t sound nervous or jet-lagged, just that it can hardly be bothered to

expend the energy needed to form words and sentences. It’s distinctly less Yeah!, more meh... Fearing the worst, I ask Vigilante if he’s in the midst of an interview marathon. “Not too bad actually,” is the languid response. So that’s one theory dismissed. Icebreaker down, it’s time for the first obvious question: how does Vigilante feel about the new album? “Pretty good.” And can Vigilante elaborate? “I don’t really have any distance from it because we’ve just been working on it up till now. But it feels good that it’s done and it’s coming out and we can get back to start playing again.” Ok, better. Not one but two full sentences, complete with idiosyncratic, non-native turn of phrase. You will by now have heard The Hives’

comeback single – Tick Tick Boom – and though it may sound like the band are treading a well-trodden riff-fuelled path, album number four isn’t just more of the same. Did they take more risks in the recording process? “ Ye a h of cou r s e,” V i g i l a nt e mu r mu r s. “There’s at least one song that everyone loves and everyone hates in the band. We did stuff that we wouldn’t normally do but that was the only way we could’ve done it.” This new-found desire to mess with the formula resulted in one of the most unlikely collaborations when the guru of commercial hip-hop that is Pharrell Williams offered his production services to the Scandinavian rockers for part of the album. “We decided pretty early on that we wanted to record the album in a new way and work with people who we haven’t worked with,” Vigilante says with the merest hint of enthusiasm. “It didn’t make sense to do the same thing again

After that initial year of touring and promo The Hives were absent until 2004’s Tyrannosaurus Hives, which failed to make as big a splash as YNFB. They then dropped off the radar again before resurfacing this summer with a few live dates to road-test the new songs. Having been away for so long, is there a pressure to prove themselves all over again, or do they feel like veterans now? “A little bit of both actually,” Vigilante responds meekly. “You do have to prove yourself again. Obviously you have the hardcore fans but then you have the people who liked us six years ago that maybe don’t like us now.” By the end of the interview I’m almost warming to Vigilante’s reticent style. At least he’s not one to bullshit, and he isn’t exactly rude. He answers every question with a literal, Germanic curtness. It’s the same attitude The Hives employ in their music, dress sense and performance, so perhaps it’s appropriate, and I was wrong to expect a jacked-up, polysyllabic live-wire. With my final question I ask Vigilante to explain The Hives’ philosophy, and he answers in the only way he knows how: “We’re just a black and white rock ‘n’ roll band.” THE BLACK AND WHITE ALBUM IS OUT NOW ON POLYDOR THE HIVES PLAY ABC, GLASGOW ON 22 NOV. WWW.THEHIVESBROADCASTINGSERVICE.COM/

From Akron/Family with love by Finbarr Bermingham

“PEOPLE ARE DECIDING THAT WE’RE ALL DOING LOTS OF DRUGS OR THAT WE’RE CRAZY RELIGIOUS TYPES.” - MATT SEATON “ M a n , we’ r e j u s t c r a z y bu s y ”, M a t t Seaton of Akron/Family explains apologetically. A fter an hour of tr y ing, The Sk i n ny h a s tra cked t hem dow n to Burlington, Vermont, a place Seaton descr ibes as “a g reat little hippy tow n.” Their brilliant third album Love Is Simple has recently hit the UK and is, by all accounts, a great little hippy album. It emphatically encourages us to love freely and without question, drifting unbounded hither and thither so frequently, the listener is left wondering how it manages to end up anywhere (Seaton admits “it’s a little back and forth”). In the style of a true free spirit, it refuses to conform. Love Is Simple sticks two fingers up to the Man, before giving him a big hug and telling him to chill the fuck out. Akron/Family are on the way up, and boy, do they know it: “They got nice food for us here and there’s a masseuse to rub our shoulders. This place is hot! Man, I’ve actually been given 400 pairs of tube socks on this tour alone!” Tube socks and massages are a far cry from the last time

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we spoke to Seaton. In 2006 he spoke of how they were too broke to live in New York. Now, with people ostensibly falling over each other to help them out, their lives have changed immeasurably. “ W hen you become publicly known, people’s opinions become known. People are deciding that we’re all doing lots of drugs or that we’re crazy religious types.” It’s a change that the erst whi le rela xed Seaton seems none too comfortable with. “You can look inside and find out what people think about you, whereas when you’re not in that position you never know what people are thinking about you unless they tell you. That’s the hardest thing for me.” “Crazy religious types” is an accusation that’s been angled at them before, but spirituality is not something Akron/Family shy away from. “From my personal life,” Seaton explains, “I think it’s a big factor, and of course music tends to ref lect a person’s personal life.” Indeed, the most beatified parts of Love Is Simple could certainly be construed as songs

of praise, whomever your God of choice. Seaton howe ve r, i s u n sure. “It is if you like. It’s not for me to say “Hey! This is everything to everybody.” Take from it what you w ill, t h a t ’s w h a t i t ’s there for!” F rom Akron/Family w it h love; g i f t s don’t come much lovelier than this. AKRON/FAMILY PLAY THE LEMON TREE, ABERDEEN ON 27 NOV AND THE BEAT CLUB, GLASGOW ON 28 NOV LOVE IS SIMPLE IS OUT NOW ON YOUNG GOD RECORDS

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JULIETTE LEWIS: “IT’S AN ACHING NEED OF MINE TO SING AND BE A SONGWRITER, BUT I WAS SCARED TO DO IT FOR SO LONG BECAUSE I KNEW, ONCE I STARTED THAT JOURNEY, IT WAS GOING TO BE ALL OR NOTHING.”

“Patti Smith will survive the media blitz and everybody’s hunger for another ‘superstar,’ because she’s an artist in a way that’s right old-fashioned.” So said Lester Bangs in 1976, and the maverick rock critic’s wisdom stands unchallenged to this day. Pulling up a seat next to the legendary Smith (singer-songwriter, poet, journalist, author, mother), and Juliette Lew is (Oscar-nominated actress, singer-song w riter, general hellraiser) – two countercultural heroines of the late 20th century and beyond - it seems almost clumsily token to broach yet too significant not to engage with the issue that lies at the heart of many a pub debate gone sour: where are all the women in rock’n’roll? Juliette takes up the challenge: “I don’t know if it’s a cultural thing, but it’s not like there’s a lack of talent,” she asserts, rolling her eyes. “There’s some cool girls with unique voices around today, whether it’s Beth Ditto (The Gossip), Karen-O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) or Shingai Shoniwa (Noisettes) – real power. But then why do they sell so much porn at truck stops?” Good question, if slightly abstract. The Skinny had the honour of meeting one after the other a few hours before they went on to join forces with Shingai and rock the ‘JD Set’– so called in celebration of Jack Daniel’s birthday, it’s an intimate event that has previously welcomed the likes of Flaming Lips, Frank Black, Guy Garvey and Richard Hawley to the stage - held in the dusty, friendly village of Lynchburg, Tennessee (population 350). It seemed prudent to get into the spirit of things and forget about the battle of the sexes and the porn lovin’ truckers for a minute, to learn more about the passions that drove these household names to the top of their respective games, and find out how they’ve maintained their hardheaded motivation through turbulent times. Those formative years in retrospect... Juliette Lewis: “Being in my thirties, I look back and think of this niche I kind of carved with the choices I made. I worked with some of the best directors in edgy movies - like Cape Fear – which were intense, they’re all high stakes drama pieces. Natural Born Killers of course was a real counterculture film and I feel like, as time has gone on, it was ahead of its time. I think it’s radical now more than when I participated in it. Back then we were like, ‘I wonder what this is going to be?’ But we trusted Oliver Stone in his vision. Then, doing the Woody Allen thing and Gilbert Grape... I’ve made this decision that I only want to do movies that mean something. The music thing’s gone pretty good – knock on wood – so I don’t need to go and make movies just for the sake of it.” Patti Smith: “I wrote some [articles for music

magazines like Creem and Rolling Stone] but all the things I did in rock‘n’roll was for the preservation of rock‘n’roll. I wanted to write because I saw the whole trajectory of rock’n’roll as a kid: seeing Little Richard and then the Animals when I was in high school, then there was the Rolling Stones and of course Bob Dylan - all the great sixties music. Being this skinny, pimply weirdo from rural New Jersey, I felt empowered by our cultural voice - I loved rock’n’roll so much. Then, in the very early Seventies it seemed to me that it was going downhill. It seemed that, politically, sexually and revolutionary-wise, it was losing its strength; getting glamorous, snotty and corporate. So I started writing and performing, really just hoping to get some kind of action going, to remind people where rock’n’roll was supposed to be; it’s supposed to be grassroots, it’s supposed to speak for the people.”

same time, but the love outweighed the fear. I’ve never been a precious actress; I’ve worked in all kinds of circumstances that were quite challenging and I fit into the festival lifestyle quite well. ” Juliette on discovering Patti... JL: “It’s funny because a lot of the movies I did have musical landscapes to them that introduced me to different music and [Natural Born Killers director] Oliver Stone introduced me to Patti Smith because that song Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger is on there and it’s radical. That track just wouldn’t be made today; of course she’s taking the piss out of that word and making it an outsider’s anthem, and if you listen to the lyrics they’re just amazing. I think people get lost because they’re so fear-based but she’s just one of those tour de forces.” On Patti’s covers album - Twelve - and her reinvention of Smells Like Teen Spirit...

In pursuit of a musical career... PS: “What really happened was Bob Dylan came to see me in late ‘74 or ‘75 in some shitty little club and he never did stuff like that. For me, it was like, I loved him, and it got so much media attention that I got signed. I don’t know if I deserved to get signed or not but his endorsement got me signed. I made my statement and then I thought ‘alright, then I’ll go back to being a painter’ or whatever I was going to be, but I wound up being pulled into the whole thing.” JL: “I’m a contradiction... in the Nineties I was listening to a lot of Sixties music, I was listening to a lot of classic rock: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, y’know, all the good stuff. Then I went through this jazz/torch singer period, and, through relationships, I was finally introduced to the Pixies and only in the last seven years was I introduced to Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr... But it’s better late than never. “It’s an aching need of mine to sing and be a songwriter, but I was scared to do it for so long because I knew, once I started that journey, it was going to be all or nothing. It wasn’t about: ‘hey, it would be fun to play a couple of bars over the weekend.’ It was terrifying and completely exhilarating at the

PS: “In the Seventies, I always loved covering songs because I didn’t start as a musician, I mean I’m not a musician and I’m not a real singer or anything. When I did Horses I had no real track record. I didn’t want to be a singer and people didn’t have guitars where I grew up. Girls really didn’t play guitar and I had no sense of myself doing anything like that.” JL: “Patti’s somebody who has never wavered from her individuality and her activism. She’s just a radical performer, visceral, and I love her covers record. I brought that to the band as an example of what you can do when you reinterpret other people’s music. Her Nirvana cover – some people may not like it but I love it - she took the song and made it her own. It’s like the past, present and future all in one track.” PS: “Even if some people fou nd it shocki ng or bla sphemous that I shou ld do this song i n t h i s ma n ner, Ku r t Coba i n loved this style of music; he loved Lead Belly, he did In the Pines (known as W here Did You Sleep Last Night on Nirvana’s Unplugged in New York LP) which is one of my favourite songs and I’d thought of covering that myself. “I was listening to Teen Spirit on a car radio, really loud and there was a resonance - a pitch in there. I heard him, his voice, I could imag-

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ine him [adopts a nasal country yodel as she mimics the chorus]: ‘Der-neh ner-ner, derneh ner-ner - here we are now, entertain us.’ I thought it would be so great to do that song in that way, as a homage and a thank you. Those lyrics, even at this time in my life - I mean I’m 60 years old and I’ve seen a lot of shit - when I sing those lyrics I feel right there.”

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Patti Smith and Juliette Lewis: Born to raise hell

MIXING YOUR DRINKS CAN YIELD EXPLOSIVE RESULTS, AS DAVE KERR FOUND OUT WHEN HE WAS SERVED MUSIC WITH A TWIST OF POLITICS BY PATTI SMITH AND JULIETTE LEWIS AT JACK DANIEL’S BIRTHDAY BASH IN THE TINY TOWN OF LYNCHBURG, TENNESSEE

On today’s music industry... PS: “I think that it’s really in this pivotal, interesting state. I don’t think it’s going down or up. Imagine it’s like a war: the people are gathering their forces, they’re marshalling their energies, and so I find it interesting. The new guard is becoming more and more independent; record companies are in trouble and are scrambling. People are starting to redefine it, and I think that’s what needs to happen in every generation. It’s not a business, wasn’t supposed to be a business, it’s a voice. I think it’s like it’s re-birthing itself and I would rather that happen than for it to be all set in stone and corporatised.” On Rupert Murdoch and MySpace... P S: “My d au g ht er m a de me a My Spa ce – which I was horrified by at first - and all these people come and visit, like 200,000! Even though I hate Ruper t Murdoch and that whole evil canopy, the idea that people come to these places and listen to each other for free is really nice. So I go to people’s MySpaces and listen, sometimes they’re funny and sometimes people really amaze me.” What gets Patti’s goat... PS: “The exploitation of young people by corporations, how people are being manipulated and moulded as the consumers of the future. “The number one thing, of course, is the illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq by the Bush administration. That’s the thing that makes me the angriest... take it from there. I know that the Bush administration in certain ways has defeated me, but I’m not going to crawl in a hole, I’m gonna be myself; I’ll be a living thorn and I’m going to poke him until hopefully he bleeds. “I get so angry when people just call me liberal becase I’m opposed to this strike on Iraq. That’s not liberal, that to me is just normal humanistic sensibility. It has nothing to do with right or left... and that’s, eh, right!” TWELVE BY PATTI SMITH IS OUT NOW ON COLUMBIA FOUR ON THE FLOOR BY JULIETTE & THE LICKS IS OUT NOW ON HASSLE JACK DANIEL IS 157.

PATTI SMITH: “I STARTED WRITING AND PERFORMING, REALLY JUST HOPING TO GET SOME KIND OF ACTION GOING, TO REMIND PEOPLE WHERE ROCK’N’ROLL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE; IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE GRASSROOTS, IT’S SUPPOSED TO SPEAK FOR THE PEOPLE.”

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the men who would be kings The K i ngs of Leon’s schedu le is i nces sant and gruelling. “It’s the never ending tour,” frontman Caleb Followill tells me. He sounds knackered yet acceptant; even humbled by the opportunity. “This is the greatest li fe,” he proclai ms i n his la z y Southern drawl, “and we are so blessed to be able to do what we love everyday.”

It may well be “the greatest life”, but touring seems to be the only life the quartet know, in between their odd pitstops at home in Nashville. The three siblings in the band spent their early years on the road with their father Leon (hence Kings Of...), a United Pentecostal Church Preacher, a restless and nomadic existence. W hen asked how he remembers his childhood, Caleb is open and honest. “It was normal to us. We didn’t know anything different. Of course you want certain things, we all wanted to have nice

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things when we were kids and we didn’t get the opportunity. We couldn’t afford things the other kids had. And you know we wanted to go to school, we wanted to have some friends. We didn’t always wanna be together.”

Their rags to riches story may not yet have reached its fairytale ending, but their experiences to date certainly seem to have given the Followills some measure of control over their future. When speaking of his formative years, Caleb’s voice is loaded with emotion but void of resentment. “Looking back now,” he reflects, “it moulded us for this life. A lot of bands can’t survive cos they can’t take the constant moving around and the instability of this lifestyle. But for us, in a weird way, it was preparing us for what we’ve got now.” The dynamics of a successful band are always i nt r ig u i ng, but t he relation sh ips

within Kings of Leon make them a particularly fascinating study. Followill concedes it’s inevitable that they get at each other’s throats but is quick to point out “it’s okay though, we can get in fights and speak our minds but at the end of the day we’re family and that’s what families do.” It is this familiarity that will give the band longevity he feels; the sparks will only serve to bring them closer. But the dynamics weren’t quite so fluid back when their artistic career first came to gain some recognition.

either too wasted or too tired. For a while it looked like it was almost the end of it.”

If their proclivity for a dram was a feature of the ‘old days’ they were unwilling to shed completely, other characteristics did not prove Now, he claims, the band has matured and it so auspicious. The disappearance of Kings of was a logical choice to make. “You’ve got to Leon’s trademark flowing beards earlier this choose your battles.” An inquiry into their year was an arresting development in itself. relationship with current tour partners Black Was the image change timed to coincide with Rebel Motorcycle Club however, results in a their considerable progression of sound from mischievous chuckle, their suggesting their wild “ONCE I START DRINKING WHISKEY I CAN country d ays a re not dea d roots? and buried just yet. GET UGLY AND NASTY. ESPECIALLY WHEN Well, yes “I thought they’d be SOMEONE’S TAKING MY MONEY...” a nd no, w i ld! But they got it would CALEB FOLLOWILL their heads screwed seem. on pretty good. We’ve been playing a bunch “We wanted to see if people would have anof casinos and once I start drinking whiskey I ything to talk about after they were gone. can get ugly and nasty. Especially when some- In the beginning, with all the bands comone’s taking my money. Man I gotta watch ing out, they wanted to have something to myself around those boys; I don’t think they attach them with. Luckily for the press and appreciate that kind of behav iour much.” ever yone, not only was our music sound-

Having announced their arrival on the scene with Youth and Young Manhood at a relatively young age (Jared was only 17), it was perhaps inevitable that they would indulge slightly. Caleb, though, believes they were out of control. “We did so much partying at the beginning and we ended up missing so many opportunities as a band; we were

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ing like we were some scruffy country band, you looked at us and that’s what you got.” If anything, since the shearing their popularity has soared. Followill coyly concurs. A gamble paid off then, and evidently in more ways than one. “I got laid more after losing the beard,” he laughs. Surely, The Skinny puts it to him, being the lead singer of the Kings of Leon is enough by itself? “It’s just everyone thought I was a lot older. A lot of older women were going for my little brother and I was like “Hey, don’t forget about me. I’m still young!” His long laugh betrays any perceived modesty, “Beard’s back now though, getting cold. Guess it’s a lonely Winter for me!” KINGS OF LEON PLAY THE AECC, ABERDEEN ON 1 DEC AND SECC, GLASGOW ON 3 DEC. WWW.KINGSOFLEON.COM